Extremum-entropy-based Heisenberg-like uncertainty relations

preprint2015arXivOpen access

Abstract

In this work we use the extremization method of various information-theoretic measures (Fisher information, Shannon entropy, Tsallis entropy) for dd-dimensional quantum systems, which complementary describe the spreading of the quantum states of natural systems. Under some given constraints, usually one or two radial expectation values, this variational method allows us to determine an extremum-entropy distribution, which is the \textit{least-biased} one to characterize the state among all those compatible with the known data. Then we use it, together with the spin-dependent uncertainty-like relations of Daubechies-Thakkar type, as a tool to obtain relationships between the position and momentum radial expectation values of the type ⟨rα⟩kα⟨pk⟩≥f(k,α,q,N),q=2s+1\langle r^α\rangle^{\frac{k}α}\langle p^k\rangle\geq f(k,α,q,N), q=2s+1, for dd-dimensional systems of NN fermions with spin ss. The resulting uncertainty-like products, which take into account both spatial and spin degrees of freedom of the fermionic constituents of the system, are shown to often improve the best corresponding relationships existing in the literature.

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