title: Molecular vibrational trapping revisited: a case study with D2.
abstract: The present theoretical study is concerned with the vibrational trapping or bond hardening, which is a well-known phenomenon predicted by a dressed state representation of small molecules like and in an intense laser field. This phenomenon is associated with a condition where the energy of the light induced, vibrational level coincides with one of the vibrational levels on the field-free potential curve, which at the same time maximizes the wave function overlap between these two levels. One-dimensional numerical simulations were performed to investigate this phenomenon in a more quantitative way than has been done previously by calculating the photodissociation probability of for a wide range of photon energy. The obtained results undoubtedly show that the nodal structure of the field-free vibrational wave functions plays a decisive role in the vibrational trapping, in addition to the current understanding of this phenomenon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 5, H-4010, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Badankó
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Technology, University of Debrecen, PO Box 12, H-4010, Debrecen, Hungary.
authors.forename: Gábor J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Halász
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Debrecen, PO Box 5, H-4010, Debrecen, Hungary.|ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd, Dugonics ter 13, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Ágnes
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Vibók