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Area of Science:

  • Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Many-Body Systems

Background:

  • Understanding nuclear density distributions is crucial for nuclear structure physics.
  • Quantifying disorder in nucleon arrangements provides macroscopic insights into nuclear properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the application of information entropy in characterizing nuclear density distributions.
  • To investigate the relationship between information entropy and nuclear structural features, including stable and non-traditional configurations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing information entropy as a measure of uncertainty and disorder in nucleon distributions.
  • Analyzing geometric parameters such as nuclear radius, diffuseness, and neutron skin.
  • Examining cluster structural features like neutron halos and alpha clustering.

Main Results:

  • Information entropy serves as a macroscopic measure of nuclear system complexity.
  • A higher information entropy value correlates with more dispersed and disordered nucleon density distributions.
  • The study quantifies uncertainty and disorder in various nuclear structures.

Conclusions:

  • Information entropy is a valuable tool for understanding nuclear density distributions.
  • This approach provides a quantitative method to analyze nuclear structures and their complexity.