Abstract
In this paper fully ab initio calculations of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of atomic rubidium due to two possible mechanisms---the intrinsic electric dipole moment of the electron and the scalar-pseudoscalar coupling between the electrons and the nucleons---are presented. The calculations were carried out using an approach which is a hybrid of the diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and the multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock method. These calculations, unlike any of the previous MBPT calculations for the rubidium atom, also take into account the effects of electron pair correlations on the atomic EDM. Our results demonstrate that these effects can make significant contributions to the EDM of alkali-metal atoms.
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