Studies of the Electric Dipole Polarizability of ${}^{129}$Xe using the Relativistic Coupled Cluster and the Normal Coupled Cluster Methods

Abstract

${}^{129}$Xe is an important candidate for the searches of electric dipole moments due to violations of time-reversal and parity violations in diamagnetic atoms. In view of the similarities between the electric dipole moment and the polarizability from the point of view of many-body theory, we have performed rigorous calculations of the ground state polarizability of ${}^{129}$Xe using a self consistent relativistic coupled-cluster method and the relativistic normal coupled-cluster method. The discrepancy between the results from these two methods is two percent, but each of them differs from the accurate measurement of the polarizability of the ground state of ${}^{129}$Xe by one percent. Our results clearly suggest that the two theoretical methods, we have employed in this work, can be applied in the future to capture electron correlation effects in the electric dipole moment of ${}^{129}$Xe to a high degree of accuracy.

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