Molecule without electrons: binding bare nuclei with strong laser fields.
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.
Smirnova
Olga
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Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, 119 992 Russia.
Spanner
Michael
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Ivanov
Misha
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