Fisher Information and Atomic Structure

Abstract

We present a comparative study of several information and statistical complexity measures in order to examine a possible correlation with certain experimental properties of atomic structure. Comparisons are also carried out quantitatively using Pearson correlation coefficient. In particular, we show that Fisher information in momentum space is very sensitive to shell effects, and is directly associated with some of the most characteristic atomic properties, such as atomic radius, ionization energy, electronegativity, and atomic dipole polarizability. Finally we present a relation that emerges between Fisher information and the second moment of the probability distribution in momentum space i.e. an energy functional of interest in (e,2e) experiments.