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$\mathcal{P,T}$-odd effects in YbCu, YbAg and YbAu

Chemical Physics 2025-01-30 v1

Abstract

In this work, the molecular enhancement factors of the P,T\mathcal{P,T}-odd interactions involving the electron electric dipole moment (WdW_\mathrm{d}) and the scalar-pseudoscalar nucleon-electron couplings (WsW_\mathrm{s}) are computed for the ground state of the bimetallic molecules YbCu, YbAg and YbAu. These systems offer a promising venue for creating cold molecules by associating laser cooled atoms. The relativistic coupled-cluster approach is used in the calculations and a thorough uncertainty analysis is performed to give accurate and reliable uncertainties to the obtained values. Furthermore, an in-depth investigation of the different electronic structure effects that determine the magnitude of the calculated enhancement factors is carried out, and two different schemes for computing WdW_\mathrm{d} are compared. The recommended values for the enhancement factors are (13.24±0.03)×1024hHzecm(13.24\pm0.03)\times10^{24}\frac{h\,\text{Hz}}{e\,\text{cm}}, (12.15±0.08)×1024hHzecm(12.15\pm0.08)\times10^{24}\frac{h\,\text{Hz}}{e\,\text{cm}} and (2.13±0.28)×1024hHzecm(2.13\pm0.28)\times10^{24}\frac{h\,\text{Hz}}{e\,\text{cm}} for WdW_\mathrm{d}, and (48.36±0.18)  hkHz(-48.36\pm0.18)\;h\,\text{kHz}, (45.51±0.43)  hkHz(-45.51\pm0.43)\;h\,\text{kHz} and (5.31±1.80)  hkHz(5.31\pm1.80)\;h\,\text{kHz} for WsW_\mathrm{s}, for YbCu, YbAg and YbAu, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2408.15029,
  title  = {$\mathcal{P,T}$-odd effects in YbCu, YbAg and YbAu},
  author = {Johan David Polet and Yuly Chamorro and Lukáš F. Pašteka and Steven Hoekstra and Michał Tomza and Anastasia Borschevsky and I. Agustín Aucar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15029},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables