Congratulations to:

Yanan Dai

Zhikang Zhou

Atreyie Ghosh

Roger Mong

Atushi Kubo and

Chen-Bin Huang

for bringing this

work to fruition

We generate and image a plasmonic vortex, and from that deduce its topological spin texture

The arrows represent the topological spin texture of plasmonic meron quasiparticles

This research was supported by the NSF CCI Center for Chemistry at the Space Time Limit (CaSTL) at UC Irvine, headed by Prof. Apkarian