Information entropy as a measure of tunneling and quantum confinement in a symmetric double-well potential

DOI10.1002/ANDP.201500196zbMATH Open1337.81047arXiv1904.11172OpenAlexW3126047809MaRDI QIDQ2804574FDOQ2804574

Amlan K. Roy, Neetik Mukherjee, Arunesh Roy

Publication date: 4 May 2016

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Information entropic measures such as Fisher information, Shannon entropy, Onicescu energy and Onicescu Shannon entropy of a symmetric double-well potential are calculated in both position and momentum space. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of this system are obtained through a variation-induced exact diagonalization procedure. The information entropy-based uncertainty relation is shown to be a better measure than conventional uncertainty product in interpreting purely quantum mechanical phenomena, such as, tunneling and quantum confinement in this case. Additionally, the phase-space description provides a semiclassical explanation for this feature. Total information entropy and phase-space area show similar behavior with increasing barrier height.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11172

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zbMATH Keywords

Shannon entropyFisher informationtunnelingquantum confinementOnicescu energysymmetric double-well potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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