We warmly congratulate Dr. Sicong Wang for his first-authored paper titled All-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching by first-order azimuthally polarized vortex beams accepted by Applied Physics Letter.

This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (YS2018YFB110012), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (11604123, 61522504, 61432007, 61605065, and 61475038), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (21616338), the Guangdong Provincial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (Grant No. 2016ZT06D081), the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area, “Nano Spin Conversion Science” (Grant No. 26103005), the European Research Council ERC, Grant Agreement No. 339813 (Exchange), and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Reference：https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5051576