Electromagnetic Contributions to the Schiff Moment

Abstract

The Schiff moment, $\text{smij}$, is a parity and time reversal violating fermion-fermion coupling. The nucleus-electron Schiff moment generically gives the most important contribution to the electric dipole moments of atoms and molecules with zero net intrinsic electronic spin and nuclear spin $\frac{1}{2}$. Here, the electromagnetic contribution to the Schiff moment, $\text{emij}$, is considered. For a nucleon, the leading chirally violating contribution to this interaction is calculable in the chiral limit in terms of the parity and time reversal violating pion-nucleon coupling. For the Schiff moment of heavy nuclei, this chiral contribution is somewhat smaller than the finite size effect discussed previously in the literature.

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure (not included), Tex file, requires phyzzx, preprint SCIPP 93/45