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Exact R\'enyi entropies of $D$-dimensional harmonic systems

Mathematical Physics 2018-11-15 v1 math.MP

Abstract

The determination of the uncertainty measures of multidimensional quantum systems is a relevant issue \textit{per se} and because these measures, which are functionals of the single-particle probability density of the systems, describe numerous fundamental and experimentally accessible physical quantities. However, it is a formidable task (not yet solved, except possibly for the ground and a few lowest-lying energetic states) even for the small bunch of elementary quantum potentials which are used to approximate the mean-field potential of the physical systems. Recently, the dominant term of the Heisenberg and R\'enyi measures of the multidimensional harmonic system (i.e., a particle moving under the action of a DD-dimensional quadratic potential, D>1D > 1) has been analytically calculated in the high-energy (i.e., Rydberg) and the high-dimensional (i.e., pseudoclassical) limits. In this work we determine the exact values of the R\'enyi uncertainty measures of the DD-dimensional harmonic system for all ground and excited quantum states directly in terms of DD, the potential strength and the hyperquantum numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00982,
  title  = {Exact R\'enyi entropies of $D$-dimensional harmonic systems},
  author = {D. Puertas-Centeno and I. V. Toranzo and J. S. Dehesa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00982},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted in EPJ-ST