Bound states and dipole polarizability of hydrogen molecular ion H2 in weakly coupled hot plasmas

The effects of hot-dense plasmas on the bound states and the dipole polarizability of the ground state of Coulomb three-body molecular ion H⁺₂ have been investigated using highly correlated basis functions and by considering the Debye shielding approach of plasma modeling. The ground S state and the first excited P state energies along with the dipole polarizability for different shielding parameters are reported.