Scientific highlights

  • Let there be… a new light: scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart [see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

  • Spying on topology: an ultra-fast optical way to extract critical information from quantum materials [see 1, 2]

  • Freeing electrons to better trap them [see 123]

  • From insulator to conductor in a flash [see 12].
  • A spinning top of light [see 12].
  • C'mon electrons, let's do the twist! Twisting electrons can tell right-handed and left-handed molecules apart [see 12].
  • Ultrafast preparation and detection of ring currents in single atoms [see 1]
  • Spin polarization by strong field ionization [see 12]
  • Probing molecular chirality on a sub-femtosecond timescale [see 1,2,3]
  • Ascertaining tunneling time [see 1,2,3].