title: Molecule without electrons: binding bare nuclei with strong laser fields.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory, Moscow, 119 992 Russia.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Smirnova
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spanner
authors.forename: Misha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ivanov