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Electron Confinement study in a double quantum dot by means of Shannon Entropy Information

Atomic Physics 2024-01-25 v2

Abstract

In this work, we use the Shannon informational entropies to study an electron confined in a double quantum dot; we mean the entropy in the space of positions, SrS_r, in the space of momentum, SpS_p, and the total entropy, St=Sr+SpS_t = S_r+S_p. We obtain SrS_r, SpS_p and StS_t as a function of the parameters A2A_2 and kk which rules the height and the width, respectively, of the internal barrier of the confinement potential. We conjecture that the entropy SrS_r maps the degeneracy of states when we vary A2A_2 and also is an indicator of the level of decoupling/coupling of the double quantum dot. We study the quantities SrS_r and SpS_p as measures of delocalization/localization of the probability distribution. Furthermore, we analyze the behaviors of the quantities SpS_p and StS_t as a function of A2A_2 and kk. Finally, we carried out an energy analysis and, when possible, compared our results with work published in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2312.16093,
  title  = {Electron Confinement study in a double quantum dot by means of Shannon Entropy Information},
  author = {Wallas S. Nascimento and Angelo M. Maniero and Frederico V. Prudente and Carlos R. de Carvalho and Ginette Jalbert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16093},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Version accepted for publication in Physica B: Condensed Matter