Relativistic effects on information measures for hydrogen-like atoms

Details Relativistic effects on information measures for hydrogen-like atoms Relativistic effects on information measures for hydrogen-like atoms

2009-02-23

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3970v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

Accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Scientific paper

Position and momentum information measures are evaluated for the ground state of the \emph{relativistic} hydrogen-like atoms. Consequences of the fact that the radial momentum operator is not self-adjoint are explicitly studied, exhibiting fundamental shortcomings of the conventional uncertainty measures in terms of the radial position and momentum variances. The Shannon and R\'enyi entropies, the Fisher information measure, as well as several related information measures, are considered as viable alternatives. Detailed results on the onset of relativistic effects for low nuclear charges, and on the extreme relativistic limit, are presented. The relativistic position density decays exponentially at large $r$, but is singular at the origin. Correspondingly, the momentum density decays as an inverse power of $p$. Both features yield divergent R\'enyi entropies away from a finite vicinity of the Shannon entropy. While the position space information measures can be evaluated analytically for both the nonrelativistic and the relativistic hydrogen atom, this is not the case for the relativistic momentum space. Some of the results allow interesting insight into the significance of recently evaluated Dirac-Fock vs. Hartree-Fock complexity measures for many-electron neutral atoms.

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