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The \u201creaction coordinates\u201d for ultrafast SEF even in archetypal systems such as pentacene thin film remain unclear. Couplings between fast electrons and slow nuclei are ubiquitous across a range of phenomena in chemistry. Accordingly, spectroscopic detection of vibrational coherences in the\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\">\n                        <mml:msup>\n                          <mml:mrow>\n                            <mml:mo stretchy=\"false\">(<\/mml:mo>\n                            <mml:mi>T<\/mml:mi>\n                            <mml:mi>T<\/mml:mi>\n                            <mml:mo stretchy=\"false\">)<\/mml:mo>\n                          <\/mml:mrow>\n                          <mml:mn>1<\/mml:mn>\n                        <\/mml:msup>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    photoproduct motivated investigations into a possible role of vibronic coupling, akin to that reported in several photosynthetic proteins. However, acenes are very different from chlorophylls with 10\u00d7 larger vibrational displacements upon photoexcitation and low-frequency vibrations modulating intermolecular orbital overlaps. Whether (and if so how) these unique features carry any mechanistic significance for SEF remains a poorly understood question. Accordingly, synthetic design of new molecules aiming to mimic this process across the solar spectrum has broadly relied on tuning electronic couplings. We address this gap and identify previously unrecognized synergistic interplay of vibrations, which in striking contrast to photosynthesis, vitally enhances SEF across a broad, nonselective and, therefore, unavoidable range of vibrational frequencies. We argue that attaching mechanistic significance to spectroscopically observed prominent quantum beats is misleading. Instead, we show that vibronic mixing leads to anisotropic quantum beats and propose readily implementable polarization-based two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy experiments which uniquely distinguish vibrations which drive vibronic mixing and promote SEF, against spectator vibrations simply accompanying ultrafast internal conversion. Our findings introduce crucial ingredients in synthetic design of SEF materials and spectroscopy experiments aiming to decipher mechanistic details from quantum beats.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.2310124120","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,29]],"date-time":"2023-11-29T13:37:58Z","timestamp":1701265078000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.cm10313","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Low- and high-frequency vibrations synergistically enhance singlet exciton fission through robust vibronic resonances"],"prefix":"10.1073","volume":"120","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-7329-1271","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Atandrita","family":"Bhattacharyya","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4273-6281","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amitav","family":"Sahu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sanjoy","family":"Patra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vivek","family":"Tiwari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"341","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_4_1_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-physchem-040412-110130"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1063\/1.4794427"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41557-019-0368-9"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.accounts.0c00397"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_5_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev-physchem-052516-050602"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1063\/1.4982362"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1063\/1.4982359"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_8_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1063\/1.5031778"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_9_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/jacs.2c07237"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_10_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.jpclett.7b00230"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_11_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1126\/sciadv.abb0052"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_12_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/nchem.2371"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_13_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/ja208431r"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_14_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1021\/jp510777c"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_15_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1103\/PhysRevLett.105.257403"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_16_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"J. 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