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Molecular CP-violating magnetic moment

Atomic Physics 2008-12-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A concept of CP-violating (T,P-odd) permanent molecular magnetic moments μCP\mu^{CP} is introduced. We relate the moments to the electric dipole moment of electron (eEDM) and estimate μCP\mu^{CP} for several diamagnetic polar molecules. The moments exhibit a steep, Z^5, scaling with the nuclear charge Z of the heavier molecular constituent. A measurement of the CP-violating magnetization of a polarized sample of heavy molecules may improve the present limit on eEDM by several orders of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0507040,
  title  = {Molecular CP-violating magnetic moment},
  author = {Andrei Derevianko and M G Kozlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0507040},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, no figures, submitted to PRA