Abstract
Using femtosecond pump and probe spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations, we show that photoexcitation of dimers of tetramethyl-tetrathiafulvalene cations induces predominantly coherent phonons that lead to photoinduced phase transitions in linear chains of these materials.
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