Journal of Physics Communications
Relative Fisher information for Morse potential and isotropic quantum oscillators
Takuya Yamano
Abstract
The relative Fisher information associated with quantum-mechanical states for two prototypical models is presented; the radial density functions that characterize the Morse oscillator and the d-dimensional isotropic quantum oscillators are analyzed in terms of this relative information by specifying the ground state as the reference. We find that the information increases as the eigenvalue (i.e., the degree of the associated Laguerre polynomials) increases for the Morse density function, but for the isotropic quantum harmonic models, it decreases with the dimension and increases almost linearly with the increasing quantum numbers. We present also the explicit expression for the information associated with the angular density as a function of the orbital quantum number and the magnetic quantum number for the three-dimensional isotropic quantum oscillator.