Light, it seems, can be like Shirley Temple’s curls: more twisty than anyone could possibly have imagined.
TWISTED A proposed experiment to probe superchiral light would send circularly polarized light (green helix) through molecules of different chirality or ‘handedness’ (labeled here as L and R, for left-handed and right-handed).
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