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Interactions of molecules with intense laser fields produce highly nonlinear effects mediated by the bonding electrons. Recent experiments in nonlinear photoelectron spectroscopy of diatomics such as H2 have shown the presence of new electronic states and thus new boundstates of the molecular ions, which are manifestations of the dressing of the diatomic ion by the large number of photons present at high intensities as predicted by theory. In this chapter we will expose the theory of dressed molecules and present numerical calculations by coupled equations of these new phenomena which occur whenever intense laser fields interact with molecules.
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Bandrauk, A.D. (1991). The Electron and the Dressed Molecule. In: Hestenes, D., Weingartshofer, A. (eds) The Electron. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3570-2_11
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