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    Intertwined electron-nuclear motion in frustrated double ionization in driven heteronuclear molecules

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    We study frustrated double ionization in a strongly-driven heteronuclear molecule HeH+^{+} and compare with H2_2. We compute the probability distribution of the sum of the final kinetic energies of the nuclei for strongly-driven HeH+^{+}. We find that this distribution has more than one peak for strongly-driven HeH+^{+}, a feature we do not find to be present for strongly-driven H2_{2}. Moreover, we compute the probability distribution of the n quantum number of frustrated double ionization. We find that this distribution has several peaks for strongly-driven HeH+^{+}, while the respective distribution has one main peak and a "shoulder" at lower n quantum numbers for strongly-driven H2_{2}. Surprisingly, we find this feature to be a clear signature of the intertwined electron-nuclear motion
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