Heisenberg and Entropic Uncertainty Measures for Large-Dimensional Harmonic Systems

The D-dimensional harmonic system (i.e., a particle moving under the action of a quadratic potential) is, together with the hydrogenic system, the main prototype of the physics of multidimensional quantum systems. In this work, we rigorously determine the leading term of the Heisenberg-like and entr...

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Autores: Puertas-Centeno, D., Toranzo, I. V., Dehesa, J. S.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Repositorio:BURJC-Digital. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
OAI Identifier:oai:burjcdigital.urjc.es:10115/40181
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10115/40181
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Entropic uncertainty measures
D-dimensional harmonic oscillator
D-dimensional quantum physics
Radial and momentum expectation values
Harmonic states at large dimensions
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Resumo:The D-dimensional harmonic system (i.e., a particle moving under the action of a quadratic potential) is, together with the hydrogenic system, the main prototype of the physics of multidimensional quantum systems. In this work, we rigorously determine the leading term of the Heisenberg-like and entropy-like uncertainty measures of this system as given by the radial expectation values and the Rényi entropies, respectively, at the limit of large D. The associated multidimensional position-momentum uncertainty relations are discussed, showing that they saturate the corresponding general ones. A conjecture about the Shannon-like uncertainty relation is given, and an interesting phenomenon is observed: the Heisenberg-like and Rényi-entropy-based equality-type uncertainty relations for all of the D-dimensional harmonic oscillator states in the pseudoclassical (D → ∞) limit are the same as the corresponding ones for the hydrogenic systems, despite the so different character of the oscillator and Coulomb potentials.