When driven by nonclassical light, photoemission from a needle tip reveals signatures of strong-field physics, opening up opportunities to control matter and to engineer the building blocks of quantum technologies.
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Ciappina, M. Quantum light steers photoelectrons. Nat. Phys. 21, 1871–1872 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-03092-4
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