Ab initio studies of electron correlation effects in the atomic parity violating amplitudes in Cs and Fr

B K Sahoo (1)

1 University of Groningen [Groningen]

We have studied the correlation effects in Cs and Fr arising from the interplay of the residual Coulomb interaction to all orders and the neutral weak interaction which gives rise to the parity violating electric dipole transition to first order, within the framework of the relativistic coupledcluster theory which circumvents the constrain of explicitly summing over the intermediate states. We observe that, the contributions arising from the perturbed doubly excited states are quite significant and hence, any calculation should not be considered accurate unless it includes the perturbed double excitations comprehensively. In this article, we have reported a comparative study of various results related to the parity violation in Cs and Fr.

Mots clés: atomic parity violation; ab initio method; coupled-cluster theory

B K Sahoo. Ab initio studies of electron correlation effects in the atomic parity violating amplitudes in Cs and Fr. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 2010, 43 (8), pp.85005. ⟨10.1088/0953-4075/43/8/085005⟩. ⟨hal-00569899⟩