Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
5-22-2014
Abstract
Pendlebury et al. [Phys. Rev. A 70, 032102 (2004)] were the first to investigate the role of geometric phases in searches for an electric dipole moment (EDM) of elementary particles based on Ramsey-separated oscillatory field magnetic resonance with trapped ultracold neutrons and comagnetometer atoms. Their work was based on the Bloch equation and later work using the density matrix corroborated the results and extended the scope to describe the dynamics of spins in general fields and in bounded geometries. We solve the Schrödinger equation directly for cylindrical trap geometry and obtain a full description of EDM-relevant spin behavior in general fields, including the short-time transients and vertical spin oscillation in the entire range of particle velocities. We apply this method to general macroscopic fields and to the field of a microscopic magnetic dipole.
PACS numbers: 28.20.-v, 14.20.Dh, 21.10.Tg
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Steyerl, A., Kaufman, C., Müller, G., Malik, S. S., Desai, A. M., & Golub, R.. Calculation of geometric phases in electric dipole searches with trapped spin-1/2 particles based on direct solution of the Schrödinger equation. Physical Review A, 89(5), 052129. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.052129
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.052129
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