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Readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair by pump-push spectroscopy. / Mims, David; Herpich, Jonathan; Lukzen, Nikita N. et al.

In: Science, Vol. 374, No. 6574, 17.12.2021, p. 1470-1474.

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Mims, D, Herpich, J, Lukzen, NN, Steiner, UE & Lambert, C 2021, 'Readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair by pump-push spectroscopy', Science, vol. 374, no. 6574, pp. 1470-1474. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl4254

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Mims D, Herpich J, Lukzen NN, Steiner UE, Lambert C. Readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair by pump-push spectroscopy. Science. 2021 Dec 17;374(6574):1470-1474. doi: 10.1126/science.abl4254

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Mims, David ; Herpich, Jonathan ; Lukzen, Nikita N. et al. / Readout of spin quantum beats in a charge-separated radical pair by pump-push spectroscopy. In: Science. 2021 ; Vol. 374, No. 6574. pp. 1470-1474.

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abstract = "Spin quantum beats prove the quantum nature of reactions involving radical pairs, the key species of spin chemistry. However, such quantum beats remain hidden to transient absorption-based optical observation because the spin hardly affects the absorption properties of the radical pairs. We succeed in demonstrating such quantum beats in the photoinduced charge-separated state (CSS) of an electron donor-acceptor dyad by using two laser pulses-one for pumping the sample and another one, with variable delay, for further exciting the CSS to a higher electronic state, wherein ultrafast recombination to distinct, optically detectable products of singlet or triplet multiplicity occurs. This represents a spin quantum measurement of the spin state of the CSS at the time instant of the second (push) pulse.",
author = "David Mims and Jonathan Herpich and Lukzen, {Nikita N.} and Steiner, {Ulrich E.} and Christoph Lambert",
note = "This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant LA991/20-1 (C.L. and D.M.); the SolTech Initiative of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and the Arts; and Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation grant 075-15-2020-779 (N.N.L.). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.",
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