“…[46][47][48][49][50] The noted knowledge gap on the polarizability of charged particles relates both to the difficulty of manipulating highly reactive and unstable species, such as ions, in an experiment [38,[51][52][53][54] and to the fact that the precise evaluation of electric response properties of such electrondeficient and, even more so, electron-rich systems remains a hard nut to crack for conventional quantum chemical machinery. [21,25,28,29] The accurate data on the polarizability of charged species are primarily of fundamental relevance to the interpretation of the respective spectra [18,29,[53][54][55][56] and for the calculation of ionmolecular potentials. [57][58][59] At the same time, these data are also essential for several existing and emerging applications directly based on the intrinsic properties of ions themselves (quantum computing, [18,60,61] quantum metrology, [18,60,62] and development of optical frequency standards [18,21,23,53,60,63] ) as well for a number of issues where an appreciable ionization of the gaseous medium, due to the specific physical properties of charged particles as compared with their neutral counterparts, critically affects the macroscopic characteristics (optical refractivity, [31,[64][65][66] dielectric pe...…”