Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2011-09-19
Physics
Atomic Physics
7 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
In a recent Comment [arXiv:1108.3399], Dzuba and Flambaum have referred to the disagreement of the results of our latest calculations of Tl electron and scalar-pseudoscalar (S-PS) electric dipole moments (EDMs) and Cs parity non-conservation (PNC) with some other calculations. We have responded to all their points and also discussed the larger issues related to them. We have attempted to find the reasons for the disagreement between the results of our calculations and those of others. In particular, we have found that the two important reasons for the discrepancies between the Tl EDM calculations of Dzuba and Flambaum and ours are the different choice of single particle orbitals and the treatment of the valence-core correlation effects. We have demonstrated by numerical calculations that the $V^{N-3}$ orbitals used by Dzuba and Flambaum overestimate the Tl electron and S-PS EDMs at the Dirac-Fock level. The failure of their suggested consistency test as interpreted by us is explained for systems with strong correlation like Tl. Also, the importance of understanding the physics underlying different theories on which atomic EDM and PNC calculations are based and comparisons between them are emphasized.
Das Bhanu Pratap
Mukherjee Debashis
Nataraj H. S.
Sahoo Binod Kumar
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