Candidate molecular ions for an electron electric dipole moment experiment

Abstract

This paper is a theoretical work in support of a newly proposed experiment (R. Stutz and E. Cornell, Bull. Am. Soc. Phys. 89, 76 2004) that promises greater sensitivity to measurements of the electron's electric dipole moment (EDM) based on the trapping of molecular ions. Such an experiment requires the choice of a suitable molecule that is both experimentally feasible and possesses an expectation of a reasonable EDM signal. We find that the molecular ions PtH+, HfH+, and HfF+ are suitable candidates in their low-lying triplet Delta states. In particular, we anticipate that the effective electric fields generated inside these molecules are approximately of 73 GV/cm, -17 GV/cm, and -18 GV/cm respectively. As a byproduct of this discussion, we also explain how to make estimates of the size of the effective electric field acting in a molecule, using commercially available, nonrelativistic molecular structure software.

25 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review A

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