Predicting atomic decay rates using an informational-entropic approach

DOI10.1007/S10773-018-3695-5zbMATH Open1394.81175arXiv1703.06818OpenAlexW3103863177MaRDI QIDQ726037FDOQ726037

Authors: Marcelo Gleiser, Nan Jiang 

Publication date: 2 August 2018

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that a newly proposed Shannon-like entropic measure of shape complexity applicable to spatially-localized or periodic mathematical functions known as configurational entropy (CE) can be used as a predictor of spontaneous decay rates for one-electron atoms. The CE is constructed from the Fourier transform of the atomic probability density. For the hydrogen atom with degenerate states labeled with the principal quantum number n, we obtain a scaling law relating the n-averaged decay rates to the respective CE. The scaling law allows us to predict the n-averaged decay rate without relying on the traditional computation of dipole matrix elements. We tested the predictive power of our approach up to n=20, obtaining an accuracy better than 3.7% within our numerical precision, as compared to spontaneous decay tables listed in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06818

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zbMATH Keywords

information theoryatomic decay ratesconfigurational entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum scattering theory (81U99) Atomic physics (81V45)

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