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ArticleNature communications2025

Attosecond spectroscopy of molecular charge transfer uncovers a 1.5-fs delay in population transfer.

Danylo T Matselyukh, Florian Rott, Thomas Schnappinger, Pengju Zhang, Zheng Li, Jeremy O Richardson, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Hans Jakob Wörner

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Ultrafast chemistry.Communications chemistry · 2026
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8 authors.

Danylo T Matselyukh *Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6605-9898
Florian Rott *Department of Chemistry, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6394-0456
Thomas SchnappingerDepartment of Chemistry, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. thomas.schnappinger@fysik.su.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4538-811X
Pengju ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7746-2113
Zheng LiSchool of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0329-1275
Jeremy O RichardsonDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9429-151X
Regina de Vivie-RiedleDepartment of Chemistry, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Hans Jakob WörnerDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. hwoerner@ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8877-0872

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transfer of population between two intersecting quantum states is the most fundamental event in many dynamical processes in physics, chemistry, biology, and material science. Any two-state description of such processes requires population leaving one state to instantaneously appear in the other. We show that coupling to additional states, present in all real-world systems, can cause a measurable delay in population transfer. Using attosecond spectroscopy supported by quantum-chemical calculations, we measure a delay of 1.46 ± 0.41 fs at a charge-transfer crossing in CF

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