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Molecule without electrons: binding bare nuclei with strong laser fields

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.243001
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
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We show how a carefully chosen combination of strong linearly and circularly polarized laser fields can bind two same-sign charges, not only suppressing their Coulomb repulsion in all three spatial dimensions, but also creating an effective attraction. As an example, we show how a molecule HD2+ stripped of both electrons can be kept bound by the laser fields.
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  • Physical Review Letters 90, no. 24, 243001 (16 June 2003).
LanguageEnglish
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NPARC number12338597
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