Abstract:
A technique based on the relativistic pseudopotential method is proposed to calculate the derivative of the electronic vibrational level energy with respect to the fine-structure constant α for heavy-element compounds. The effect of a small change in α on the frequency of a transition between the vibrational levels of the ground and first excited states of the molecular cation HfF+ is calculated. This information is necessary to prepare experiments aimed at determining the time variation in the fine-structure constant.
Citation:
L. V. Skripnikov, N. S. Mosyagin, A. N. Petrov, A. V. Titov, “On the search for time variation in the fine-structure constant: Ab initio calculation of HfF+”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 88:9 (2008), 668–672; JETP Letters, 88:9 (2009), 578–581
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