By manipulating a laser light field in space and time, electromagnetic radiation can be used to control the spatial positions and orientations of molecules, therefore potentially allowing the extension of the crystal landscape to encompass previously unobtainable, but now electric field stabilized, crystal lattices. Specifically, electric field controlled crystallization presents the tantalizing possibility of allowing dynamic and spatial manipulation of the underlying potential energy surface upon which the crystallization process is taking place. Formally, this amounts to adding a perturbation term to the molecular Hamiltonian that seeks to align the dipole moment of a molecule with the applied electric field . This is shown in equation (1):