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Information-entropic measures for non-zero l states of confined hydrogen-like ions
Relative Fisher information (IR), which is a measure of correlative
fluctuation between two probability densities, has been pursued for a number of
quantum systems, such as, 1D quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) and a few
central potentials namely, 3D isotropic QHO, hydrogen atom and pseudoharmonic
potential (PHP) in both position () and momentum () spaces. In the 1D
case, the state is chosen as reference, whereas for a central potential,
the respective circular or node-less (corresponding to lowest radial quantum
number ) state of a given quantum number, is selected. Starting from
their exact wave functions, expressions of IR in both and spaces are
obtained in closed analytical forms in all these systems. A careful analysis
reveals that, for the 1D QHO, IR in both coordinate spaces increase linearly
with quantum number . Likewise, for 3D QHO and PHP, it varies with single
power of radial quantum number in both spaces. But, in H atom they
depend on both principal () and azimuthal () quantum numbers. However, at
a fixed , IR (in conjugate spaces) initially advance with rise of and
then falls off; also for a given , it always decreases with
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