Neighbors move electrons jointly: Ultrafast collective electron transfer after excitation of single electron

Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers have observed an extremely fast, collective electron transfer of ~100 molecular ions after excitation of a single electron in a crystal of transition metal complexes.



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