Effects of beyond-mean-field correlations on nuclear Schiff moments
Abstract
We compute the nuclear Schiff moments of the diamagnetic atoms Xe, Hg, and Ra in multireference covariant density functional theory. Beyond-mean-field correlations, arising from symmetry restoration and shape mixing, are incorporated via the generator coordinate method with projection onto states with well-defined parity, particle number, and angular momentum. Our results reveal a correlation between the contributions of nuclear intermediate states to Schiff moments and the electric dipole transition strengths from these states to the ground state. The new beyond-mean-field effects can either enhance or suppress the Schiff moments. In Ra, they do the latter, reducing the enhancement from octupole deformation somewhat.
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@article{arxiv.2507.01369,
title = {Effects of beyond-mean-field correlations on nuclear Schiff moments},
author = {E. F. Zhou and J. M. Yao and J. Engel and J. Meng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01369},
year = {2025}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures and 1 table