Search for new physics with atoms and molecules

MS Safronova, D Budker, D DeMille, DFJ Kimball… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
This article reviews recent developments in tests of fundamental physics using atoms and
molecules, including the subjects of parity violation, searches for permanent electric dipole …

Quantum sensing and metrology for fundamental physics with molecules

D DeMille, NR Hutzler, AM Rey, T Zelevinsky - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum sensing and metrology use coherent superposition states of quantum systems to
detect and measure physical effects of interest. Their sensitivity is typically limited by the …

CeNTREX: a new search for time-reversal symmetry violation in the 205Tl nucleus

O Grasdijk, O Timgren, J Kastelic… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Cold molecule Nuclear Time-Reversal EXperiment (CeNTREX) is a new effort
aiming for a significant increase in sensitivity over the best present upper bounds on the …

Time-reversal symmetry violation in molecules induced by nuclear magnetic quadrupole moments

VV Flambaum, D DeMille, MG Kozlov - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Recent measurements in paramagnetic molecules improved the limit on the electron electric
dipole moment (EDM) by an order of magnitude. Time-reversal (T) and parity (P) symmetry …

Atoms and molecules in the search for time-reversal symmetry violation

WB Cairncross, J Ye - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
New fundamental particles at the mass scale of a few TeV c–2 could account for observed
phenomena that cannot be explained by the standard model (SM) of particle physics …

[HTML][HTML] Communication: Theoretical study of ThO for the electron electric dipole moment search

LV Skripnikov, AN Petrov, AV Titov - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
An experiment to search for the electron electric dipole moment (eEDM) on the metastable H
3 Δ 1 state of ThO molecule was proposed and now prepared by the ACME Collaboration …

Oriented polar molecules in a solid inert-gas matrix: a proposed method for measuring the electric dipole moment of the electron

AC Vutha, M Horbatsch, EA Hessels - Atoms, 2018 - mdpi.com
We propose a very sensitive method for measuring the electric dipole moment of the
electron using polar molecules embedded in a cryogenic solid matrix of inert-gas atoms. The …

Generalized relativistic effective core potentials for actinides

NS Mosyagin, AV Zaitsevskii… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Actinide compounds are very intriguing objects for the quantum chemistry because, on the
one hand, these compounds are of great scientific and technological interest and, on the …

Methods, analysis, and the treatment of systematic errors for the electron electric dipole moment search in thorium monoxide

J Baron, WC Campbell, D DeMille… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We recently set a new limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM)(J Baron et
al and ACME collaboration 2014 Science 343 269–272), which represented an order-of …

Search for the electron electric dipole moment using -doublet levels in PbO

S Eckel, P Hamilton, E Kirilov, HW Smith… - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2013 - APS
We present results of an experiment to probe for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the
electron using an Ω-doublet state in a polar molecule. If the molecule is both massive and …