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    Information-entropic measures for non-zero l states of confined hydrogen-like ions

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    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 (rr) and momentum (pp) spaces. In the 1D case, the n=0n=0 state is chosen as reference, whereas for a central potential, the respective circular or node-less (corresponding to lowest radial quantum number nrn_{r}) state of a given ll quantum number, is selected. Starting from their exact wave functions, expressions of IR in both rr and pp 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 nn. Likewise, for 3D QHO and PHP, it varies with single power of radial quantum number nrn_{r} in both spaces. But, in H atom they depend on both principal (nn) and azimuthal (ll) quantum numbers. However, at a fixed ll, IR (in conjugate spaces) initially advance with rise of nn and then falls off; also for a given nn, it always decreases with ll
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