The Highlights of 2011 brochure displays some of the most highly rated articles published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical over the course of 2011. The featured article is "Exploring Born–Infeld electrodynamics using plasmas", DA Burton, RMGM Trines, TJ Walton and H Wen, 2011 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 095501