Fundamental transitions and ionization energies of the hydrogen molecular ions at the few ppt level
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⚛️ physics.atom-ph
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alphaenergiesfundamentalionizationtransitionscdot10ionslevel
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We calculate ionization energies and fundamental vibrational transitions for H$_2^+$, D$_2^+$, and HD$^+$ molecular ions. The NRQED expansion for the energy in terms of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ is used. Previous calculations of orders $m\alpha^6$ and $m\alpha^7$ are improved by including second-order contributions due to the vibrational motion of nuclei. Furthermore, we evaluate the largest corrections at the order $m\alpha^8$. That allows to reduce the fractional uncertainty to the level of $7\cdot10^{-12}$ for fundamental transitions and to $4\cdot10^{-12}$ for the ionization energies.
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