Journal of Mathematical Physics

Upper bounds on Shannon and Rényi entropies for central potentials

Pablo Sánchez-Moreno, Steeve Zozor, J. S. Dehesa

Published Feb 1, 2011• 31 citations

Abstract

The Rényi and Shannon entropies are information-theoretic measures, which have enabled to formulate the position–momentum uncertainty principle in a much more adequate and stringent way than the (variance-based) Heisenberg-like relation. Moreover, they are closely related to various energetic density functionals of quantum systems. Here we derive upper bounds on these quantities in terms of the second-order moment 〈r2〉 for general central potentials. This improves previous results of this type. The proof uses the Rényi maximization procedure with a covariance constraint due to Costa et al. [in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), edited by A. Rangarajan, M. A. T. Figueiredo, and J. Zerubia (Springer-Verlag, Lisbon, 2003), [Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 52, 211 (2003).]] The contributions to these bounds coming from the radial and angular parts of the physical wave functions are taken into account. Finally, the application to the d-dimensional (d ⩾ 3) hydrogenic and oscillator-like systems is provided.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3549585

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