arXiv · quant-ph/0212013
Application of information entropy to nuclei
Abstract
Shannon's information entropies in position- and momentum- space and their sum $S$ are calculated for various $s$-$p$ and $s$-$d$ shell nuclei using a correlated one-body density matrix depending on the harmonic oscillator size $b_0$ and the short range correlation parameter $y$ which originates from a Jastrow correlation function. It is found that the information entropy sum for a nucleus depends only on the correlation parameter $y$ through the simple relation $S= s_{0A} + s_{1A} y^{-λ_{sA}}$, where $s_{0A}$, $s_{1A}$ and $λ_{sA}$ depend on the mass number $A$. A similar approximate expression is also valid for the root mean square radius of the nucleus as function of $y$ leading to an approximate expression which connects $S$ with the root mean square radius. Finally, we propose a method to determine the correlation parameter from the above property of $S$ as well as the linear dependence of $S$ on the logarithm of the number of nucleons.
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S. E. Massen. 2002-12-02. Application of information entropy to nuclei. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.67.014314
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