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Rather, it originates from microscopic intermolecular correlations mediated by cascaded exchange of a virtual photon between molecular pairs. This mechanism establishes a fundamentally distinct and significant pathway for information extraction in vibrational spectroscopy, providing access to structural and dynamical observables that are intrinsically inaccessible by conventional classical Raman techniques. 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