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Floquet prethermalization in the resonantly driven Hubbard model

Herrmann, Andreas ; Murakami, Yuta ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2017, vol. 120, no. 5, p. 57001

We demonstrate the existence of long-lived prethermalized states in the Mott insulating Hubbard model driven by periodic electric fields. These states, which also exist in the resonantly driven case with a large density of photo-induced doublons and holons, are characterized by a nonzero current and an effective temperature of the doublons and holons which depends sensitively on the driving...

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High-harmonic generation in spin-orbit coupled systems

Lysne, Markus ; Murakami, Yuta ; Schüler, Michael ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 102, no. 8, p. 081121

We study high-harmonic generation in two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling and derive harmonic generation selection rules with the help of group theory. Based on the band structures of these minimal models and explicit simulations we reveal how the spin-orbit parameters control the cutoff energy in the high-harmonic spectrum. We also show that the...

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Signatures of bosonic excitations in high-harmonic spectra of Mott insulators

Lysne, Markus ; Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2020, vol. 101, no. 19, p. 195139

The high-harmonic spectrum of the Mott insulating Hubbard model has recently been shown to exhibit plateau structures with cutoff energies determined by nth-nearest- neighbor doublon-holon recombination processes. The spectrum thus allows one to extract the on-site repulsion U. Here, we consider generalizations of the single-band Hubbard model and discuss the signatures of bosonic excitations...

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Multiple amplitude modes in strongly coupled phonon-mediated superconductors

Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Aoki, Hideo

In: Physical Review B, 2016, vol. 93, no. 9, p. 94509

We study collective amplitude modes of the superconducting order parameter in strongly coupled electron-phonon systems described by the Holstein model using the nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory with the self-consistent Migdal approximation as an impurity solver. The frequency of the Higgs amplitude mode is found to coincide with the superconducting gap even in the strongly coupled...

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High-harmonic generation in Mott insulators

Murakami, Yuta ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review Letters, 2018, vol. 121, no. 5, p. 057405

Using Floquet dynamical mean-field theory, we study the high-harmonic generation in the time-periodic steady states of wide-gap Mott insulators under ac driving. In the strong-field regime, the harmonic intensity exhibits multiple plateaus, whose cutoff energies εcut=U+mE0 scale with the Coulomb interaction U and the maximum field strength E0. In this regime, the created doublons and holons...

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Damping of the collective amplitude mode in superconductors with strong electron-phonon coupling

Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Aoki, Hideo

In: Physical Review B, 2016, vol. 94, no. 11, p. 115126

We study the effect of strong electron-phonon interactions on the damping of the Higgs amplitude mode in superconductors by means of nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field simulations of the Holstein model. In contrast to the BCS dynamics, we find that the damping of the Higgs mode strongly depends on the temperature, becoming faster as the system approaches the transition temperature. The...

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Interaction quench in the Holstein model: Thermalization crossover from electron- to phonon-dominated relaxation

Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Aoki, Hideo

In: Physical Review B, 2015, vol. 91, no. 4, p. 045128

We study the relaxation of the Holstein model after a sudden switch-on of the interaction by means of the nonequilibrium dynamical mean field theory, with the self-consistent Migdal approximation as an impurity solver. We show that there exists a qualitative change in the thermalization dynamics as the interaction is varied in the weak-coupling regime. On the weaker interaction side of this...

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Nonequilibrium steady states and transient dynamics of conventional superconductors under phonon driving

Murakami, Yuta ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2017, vol. 96, no. 4, p. 045125

We perform a systematic analysis of the influence of phonon driving on the superconducting Holstein model coupled to heat baths by studying both the transient dynamics and the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) in the weak and strong electron-phonon coupling regimes. Our study is based on the nonequilibrium dynamical mean-field theory, and for the NESS we present a Floquet formulation ...

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Photoinduced enhancement of excitonic order

Murakami, Yuta ; Golež, Denis ; Eckstein, Martin ; Werner, Philipp

In: Physical Review Letters, 2017, vol. 119, no. 24, p. 247601

We study the dynamics of excitonic insulators coupled to phonons using the time- dependent mean-field theory. Without phonon couplings, the linear response is given by the damped amplitude oscillations of the order parameter with a frequency equal to the minimum band gap. A phonon coupling to the interband transfer integral induces two types of long-lived collective oscillations of the...

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Ordered phases in the Holstein-Hubbard model: Interplay of strong Coulomb interaction and electron-phonon coupling

Murakami, Yuta ; Werner, Philipp ; Tsuji, Naoto ; Aoki, Hideo

In: Physical Review B, 2013, vol. 88, no. 12, p. 125126

We study the Holstein-Hubbard model at half filling to explore ordered phases including superconductivity (SC), antiferromagnetism (AF), and charge order (CO) in situations where the electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions are strong (comparable to the electronic bandwidth). The model is solved in the dynamical mean-field approximation with a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo...