Distortion of Molecules in Intense Electric Fields

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Abstract
The static polarizability behavior of the ground-state CO molecule is obtained by ab initio calculations. Single-configuration electronic wave functions are computed using a Hamiltonian which includes the interaction with an external electric field. At fields which approach ionization the polarizability increases markedly, by at least 30%, and cannot be adequately described by the usual multipole expansion.

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