What is a Schiff moment anyway?
Amar Vutha
TL;DR
This paper provides a simplified conceptual framework for understanding nuclear Schiff moments and their interaction with atomic electrons, aiding experiments probing fundamental symmetry violations.
Contribution
It introduces a straightforward model of nuclear Schiff moments and analyzes their interaction with atomic electron fields, clarifying their role in symmetry-breaking experiments.
Findings
Develops a simple picture of nuclear Schiff moments.
Analyzes the interaction between nuclear Schiff moments and atomic electron fields.
Facilitates understanding of Schiff moments in experimental searches for new physics.
Abstract
Schiff moments of atomic nuclei are of considerable interest to experiments searching for undiscovered new physics that breaks time-reversal symmetry. I develop a simple picture of the Schiff moment of a charge distribution, and discuss the interaction of the Schiff moment of a nucleus with the field produced by an electron in an atom.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates · Quantum chaos and dynamical systems · Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics