Electric dipole moment of the electron in the YbF molecule
- 14 October 1998
- journal article
- letter
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 31 (19) , L763-L767
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/31/19/002
Abstract
We have performed an ab initio calculation of the hyperfine, P-odd and P,T-odd constants for the YbF molecule using a recently developed technique which allows us to take into account correlations and polarization in the outer-core region. The ground state electronic wavefunction of the YbF molecule is found with the help of the relativistic effective core potential method followed by the restoration of molecular four-component spinors in the core region of ytterbium within the framework of a non-variational procedure. Core polarization effects are included with the help of atomic many-body perturbation theory for the Yb atom. Our calculation of the isotropic hyperfine constant A agrees at the 3% level with the experimental value. The dipole constant (which is much smaller in magnitude), though better than in all previous calculations, is still underestimated by almost 23%. This error is reduced to 8% after a semiempirical correction for perturbation of the -shell in the core of Yb due to the chemical bonding made. Our value for the effective electric field on the unpaired electron is .Keywords
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