<inline-formula> <mml:math id="mm10000" display="block"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="bold-script">P</mml:mi> <mml:mo mathvariant="bold">,</mml:mo> <mml:mi mathvariant="bold-script">T</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>-Violating and Magnetic Hyperfine Interactions in Atomic Thallium

Abstract

We present state-of-the-art string-based relativistic general-excitation-rank configuration interaction and coupled cluster calculations of the electron electric dipole moment, the nucleon–electron scalar-pseudoscalar, and the magnetic hyperfine interaction constants ( α d e , α C S , A | | , respectively) for the thallium atomic ground state 2 P 1 / 2 . Our present best values are α d e = − 558 ± 28 , α C S = 6.77 ± 0.34 [ 10 − 18 e cm], and A | | = 21172 ± 1059 [MHz]. The central value of the latter constant agrees with the experimental result to within 0.7% and serves as a measurable probe of the P , T -violating interaction constants. Our findings lead to a significant reduction of the theoretical uncertainties for P , T -odd interaction constants for atomic thallium but not to stronger constraints on the electron electric dipole moment, d e , or the nucleon–electron scalar-pseudoscalar coupling constant, C S .

Keywords

• electron electric dipole moment
• scalar-pseudoscalar interaction
• magnetic hyperfine interaction
• relativistic many-body theory