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Annals of Physics

Quantum information entropies for position-dependent mass Schrödinger problem

G. Yáñez-Navarro, Guo-Hua Sun, T. Dytrych, Kristina D. Launey, Shi‐Hai Dong, Jerry Paul Draayer

Published Jun 3, 2014• 109 citations
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10.1016/j.aop.2014.05.018

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The Shannon information entropy for the Schrodinger equation with a nonuniform solitonic mass is evaluated for a hyperbolic-type potential. The number of nodes of the wave functions in the transformed space z are broken when recovered to original space x. The position Sx and momentum S p information entropies for six low-lying states are calculated. We notice that the Sx decreases with the increasing mass barrier width a and becomes negative beyond a particular width a,while the Sp first increases with a and then decreases with it. The negative Sx exists for the probability densities that are highly localized. We find that the probability density ρ(x) for n = 1, 3, 5 are greater than 1 at position x = 0. Some interesting features of the information entropy densities ρs(x) and ρs(p) are demonstrated. The Bialynicki–Birula–Mycielski(BBM)inequality is also tested for these states and found to hold.