High-order harmonic generation processes in classical and quantum anharmonic oscillators
We present a theoretical study of high-order harmonic generation by a slowly driven ''Duffing'' anharmonic oscillator. The power spectra are shown to display a plateau of high harmonics, which ends up with a sharp cutoff. The classical dynamics is analyzed with the adiabatic invariance theorem, which yields a simple interpretation to this characteristic behavior. We compare with the quantum case b