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We present ultrafast transient absorption spectra of two oligofluorene derivatives in dilute solution. These spectra display clear vibronic structure, which we analyze rigorously using a time-dependent formalism of absorption to extract the…
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We propose a refined scheme of deriving an effective low-energy Hamiltonian for materials with strong electronic Coulomb correlations beyond density functional theory (DFT). By tracing out the electronic states away from the target degrees…
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