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Z
ˆ
ˆ = e−共Ĥl+Ht兲 , 共2兲 Wl = − 冕 dzdpz
h
l共pz兲ln l共pz兲, 共9兲
冉冊
2
e−pz /2m
=
ZlZt n,m
兺 e−ប⍀共n+1/2兲兩具n,m兩␣, 典兩2 . 共3兲 Wl =
1
+ ln
L
, 共11兲
2
where Zt = Am⍀ / 关4ប sinh共ប⍀ / 2兲兴, being L the length,
A = R2 the area for cylindrical geometry 关5兴, and Wt = 1 − ln共1 − e−ប⍀兲 + ln共g兲, 共12兲
Zl = 共L / h兲共2mkBT兲1/2 关5兴. In addition, the matrix element where = h / 共2mkBT兲1/2 is the mean thermal wavelength of
兩具n , m 兩 ␣ , 典兩2 represents the probability of finding the elec- the particle and g = A / 2ᐉH
2
stands for the degeneracy of a
tron in the coherent state 兩␣ , 典 and we can find its expression Landau level 关16兴. Indeed, Eq. 共11兲 coincides with the clas-
as defined previously 关15兴. sical entropy for a free particle in one dimension. Equation
It should be noticed that the distribution can be written 共12兲 is the exact result 关9兴 for the transverse motion and
as follows: possesses a form for the Wehrl entropy close to the harmonic
= l共pz兲t共x,px ;y,py兲, 共4兲 oscillator entropy, with the exception of a term associated
with the degeneracy.
where has been separated as a function of two distribu-
tions, namely, l = l共pz兲 and t = t共x , px ; y , py兲. The depen-
II. DISCUSSION OF RESULTS
dence on the variable z has been missed due to the explicit
form of the Hamiltonian Ĥl. Accordingly, after summing in Although the total Wehrl entropy is expressed simply as
Eq. 共3兲 we find follows:
l =
Zl
2
e−pz /2m
, 共5兲 Wtotal =
3
2
− ln共1 − e−ប⍀兲 + ln共g兲 + ln
L
, 冉冊 共13兲
冕 dzdpz
h
l共pz兲 = 1, 共7兲
to assert that, if T / T0 ⱖ 1, the length of a thermal wave
lower than the average of the spacing among particles and
quantum considerations are not relevant 关17兴. In addition, T0
and only depends on the size of the system and does not depend
on other external or internal physical parameters such as
冕 d 2␣ d 2
4 2ᐉ H4 t共x,px ;y,p y 兲 = 1. 共8兲
transverse area, external magnetic field, charge of the par-
ticle, etc. If the system is large then the minimum tempera-
ture is low. However, modern electronic systems has junc-
In consequence, both Eqs. 共5兲 and 共6兲, under conditions 共7兲 tions where L is practically zero. In such case the required
and 共8兲, bring a promising way to get the exact form of the minimum temperature to make applicable our description is
Wehrl entropy. Furthermore, using the additivity as the most numerically high enough 关18兴.
basic property of the entropy, we can state Wtotal = Wl + Wt. Nevertheless, the entropy associated with transverse mo-
Hence, tion satisfies Wt ⱖ 1 + ln共g兲 for all temperatures in the system
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冉 冊 冉 冊
total Wehrl entropy is shown in 共a兲 at different values of the mag-
共1兲 3 T A netic field greater than H0 and in 共b兲 at several fixed values of
Wtotal ⬇ ln + ln 2 . 共15兲 temperature greater than T0. Besides, it is shown in 共a兲 a natural
2 T0 L
bound for the temperature when we force Wtotal to satisfy the Lieb
Considering that V = AL in Eq. 共15兲, the total Wehrl entropy bound and in 共b兲 the linear behavior of the Wehrl entropy for high
can be expressed as follows: values of temperature.
共1兲
Wtotal =
3
2
冉 冊V
+ ln 3 .
共16兲 increases as the magnetic field increases too. Consequently,
at extremely high temperatures as expected, the slope of the
This is a particular expression for the entropy of a free par- present linear dependence tends to zero apparently taking a
ticle in three dimensions related to the motion of a charged constant value close to the corresponding classical entropy of
particle into a region of the magnetic field making mention the free particle in three dimensions.
of some geometrical properties of the system.
In second order of approximation for high temperatures,
B. Low temperature approximation
considering the special condition A ⬃ L2, Wehrl entropy is
expressed as follows: The lower bound of temperature is related to T / T0 → 1+,
冉 冊
because this approach does not consider temperature values
共2兲 T0 3 3 T T0 共1兲 under T0. The total Wehrl entropy is reduced to logarithm
Wtotal ⬇ g + + ln = g + Wtotal . 共17兲
T 2 2 T0 T behavior of the magnetic field. This tendency is shown in
Fig. 1 through a solid line.
In Fig. 1, according to current approach, the trend of the
To study what occurs close to zero temperature, in accor-
Wehrl entropy is depicted as a function of certain values of
dance with Eq. 共14兲, we need to take systems with L → ⬁ and
T / T0 ⱖ 1 and H / H0 ⱖ 1. As explained before, the Wehrl en-
after this consideration the transverse entropy of Eq. 共12兲 can
tropy takes values that are permitted by the Lieb condition,
be seen as follows:
namely, W ⱖ 1. This fact is shown in Fig. 1共a兲 and 1共b兲.
Particularly, in Fig. 1共b兲, the linear dependence of the total +
WT→0
t = 1 + ln共g兲. 共18兲
Wehrl entropy on the magnetic field at fixed temperature is
evident. According to Eq. 共16兲 the slope decreases as tem- As we discussed before, this Wehrl entropy is also a kind of
perature increases, which is graphically shown for T / T0 harmonic oscillator entropy and the lower bound complies
= 15 and 20. This fact illustrates why the disorder slowly with being greater than a bound limiting value of the tem-
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perature, which has been suggested by Wehrl and shown by III. FISHER INFORMATION MEASURE
Lieb, W ⱖ 1 关19兴. Starting from this condition it must arrive VERSUS DEGENERACY
to the following inequality for the magnetic field
Here is proposed a compact expression for the transverse
g ⱖ 1, 共19兲 Fisher information measure. We take into account a special
way, as formerly developed 关23兴, a form given by
冉 冊
where g = qAH / hc also accounts for the ratio between the
flux of the magnetic field HA and the quantum of the mag-
netic flux given by hc / q = 4.14⫻ 10−7 关gauss/ cm2兴 关22兴.
It = 冕 d 2␣ d 2
2 4 t
4 ᐉH
共␣兲
ln t共␣兲
␣
2
. 共23兲
Then the inequality 共19兲 adopts the form
After introducing the known expression for t, we arrive to
1 hc
Hⱖ = H0 . 共20兲 2
A q It = 共1 − e−ប⍀兲. 共24兲
ᐉH
2
Therefore, the quantity H0 = hc / Aq becomes a bound limiting We notice this measure has a space dimension 共L兲−2. Thus, It
field that represents the minimum value for the external mag- quantifies the ability for estimating the parameter ␣ 关5兴,
netic field. To study what occurs close to zero magnetic field which represents the radio of the circular orbit of the coher-
we need to take systems with A → ⬁. ent states. Indeed, Eq. 共24兲 shows a linear dependence that
For finite values of A and H lower than H0 is manifested the parameter It exhibits with the magnetic field through the
the Haas–van Alphen effect, which describes oscillations in constant ᐉH2
at low temperature. Then, combining Eqs. 共24兲
the magnetization because at temperatures low enough the and 共21兲 with the definition of ᐉH we obtain
particles will tend to occupy the lowest energy states.
Whereas if the value of the magnetic field decreases a less 4
number of particles can be in the lowest state due to degen- It = 共1 − e−ប⍀兲, 共25兲
A
eracy is directly proportional to H 关16兴. Then, the transverse
Wehrl entropy Wt is well defined for values of the magnetic which represents the quantization of the Fisher information
field over H0, this is H / H0 ⱖ 1 and/or g → 1+. measure. From Eq. 共25兲, we can see that Fisher information
We can assert that this description of the system is not exponentially decreases as temperature increases. Beside, the
quantum, we say that it is semiclassical; for instance, it does growth of the starting value directly depends on the factor .
not contain the Haas–van Alphen effect, the same condition The larger is , the higher is the Fisher information at all
marks the beginning of one description and the ending of the temperatures. This gain of the ability for estimating the pa-
other. rameter ␣ is due to the degeneracy via the factor . Thus
Other relevant effect that emerges from the Landau quan-
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tization 关20兴 is the quantum Hall effect 关21兴 which is a ⱕ It ⬍ 0. 共26兲
quantum-mechanical version of the Hall effect 关13兴, ob- A
served in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low In addition, with the purpose to describe the complete
temperatures and strong magnetic fields. The degeneracy is motion, we consider now the Fisher information measure for
given by 关22兴 the longitudinal movement, this is
= 0 ,
where 0 = hc / q is the quantum of the magnetic flux. The
共21兲
Il = 冕 dzdpz
h
l共pz兲 冉
ln l共pz兲
pz
冊 2
, 共27兲
factor is related to the “filling factor” that takes integer where pz is the parameter to be considered and previously
values 共 = 1 , 2 , 3 , . . .兲. The discovery of the fractional quan- ignored 关9兴. Writing l into the above equation, we get
tum Hall effect 关12兴 extend these values to rational fractions
共 = 1 / 3 , 1 / 5 , 5 / 2 , 12/ 5 , . . .兲. The integer quantum Hall ef- 
fect is simply explained in terms of the conductivity quanti- Il = . 共28兲
m
zation = q2 / h. However, the fractional quantum Hall ef-
fect relies on other phenomena related to interactions. This particular result coincides with the one-dimensional
Consistently, we see that the degeneracy is equal to , which Fisher measure for the classical free particle 关24兴. Finally, it
must be greater than 1 due to the inequality 共19兲 obtaining an is emphasized that the total Fisher measure is constructed
infinite family of Wehrl entropies multiplying Eq. 共25兲 by Eq. 共28兲.
Again, Eq. 共19兲 provides the limiting value of and, as be- In the present contribution, we have widely discussed the
fore, the transverse entropy always satisfies the Lieb bound behavior of several thermodynamical quantities whereas a
for all temperatures and large enough systems when the complete vision in phase space is adopted. When only the
quantum Hall effect is manifested at least for the integer transverse motion is considered, diverse difficulties appear in
quantum Hall effect. Conversely, fractional values of less the corresponding interpretation of results, specifically, a
than 1 are left out the present approach. non-normalized Husimi distribution 关9兴 is obtained. In the
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present work we solve the problem by considering the com- tized version 关Eq. 共25兲兴 of the transverse Fisher information,
plete motion of the particle. As a consequence we obtain a which is inverse to the area. Furthermore, we have found the
normalized Husimi distribution in a natural way and all ther- longitudinal Fisher information 关Eq. 共28兲兴 inverse to the tem-
modynamic quantities are well defined. In this instance, we perature.
have calculated the semiclassical total Wehrl entropy as a Finally, we assert that our semiclassical description con-
sum of two terms, one for the transverse motion and the stitutes a useful framework to illustrate problems related to
other for the longitudinal motion. Indeed, the total Wehrl size effects, role of boundaries and other typical anomalies
entropy has been expressed in terms of the cyclotron fre- derived from the size of the system, which are refereed to
quency, the mean thermal wavelength and, the degeneracy of two parameters as A and L and they explicitly appear in the
the Landau levels 关Eq. 共13兲兴. We have analyzed two limit form of the T0, H0, etc. In addition, the zero temperature can
cases. At high temperatures, we have associated the semi- be achieved only if the length of the system L is large
classical entropy with the geometrical properties of the sys- enough, otherwise physical properties strongly depend on the
tem and with the temperature T0 such that this approach has size of the system.
sense 关Eq. 共15兲兴. At low temperatures, we have found the
minimum value of the external magnetic field that depends ACKNOWLEDGMENT
on the transversal area. Moreover, from the quantization of
the quantum Hall effect, we have obtained a family of quan- This work has been financially supported in part by FON-
tized Wehrl entropies 关Eq. 共22兲兴. Also, we have given a quan- DECYT Grant No. 1080487.
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