Ultrafast imaging of molecular chirality with photoelectron vortices

This is the plotting data and plotting scripts for the publication: <strong>“Ultrafast imaging of molecular chirality with photoelectron vortices”. </strong>Preprint available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07289. A readme.txt file is included with the data. <strong>Authors:</strong><br> Xavier Barcons Planas, Andrés Ordóñez, Maciej Lewenstein, Andrew Stephen Maxwell <strong>Abstract:</strong> Ultrafast imaging of molecular chirality is a key step towards the dream of imaging and interpreting electronic dynamics in complex and biologically relevant molecules. Here, we propose a new ultrafast chiral phenomenon exploiting recent advances in electron optics allowing access to the orbital angular momentum of free electrons. We show that strong-field ionization of a chiral target with a few-cycle linearly polarized 800 nm laser pulse yields photoelectron vortices, whose chirality reveals that <br> of the target, and we discuss the mechanism underlying this phenomenon. Our work opens new perspectives in recollision-based chiral imaging.