Shannon entropy for Feinberg–Horodecki equation and thermal properties of improved Wei potential model

Abstract

Abstract We solved a one-dimensional time-dependent Feinberg–Horodecki equation for an improved Wei molecular energy potential function using the parametric Nikiforov–Uvarov method. The quantized momentum and the corresponding wave functions were obtained. With the help of the wave functions obtained, we calculated Shannon entropy for both the position space and momentum space. The results were used to study four molecules. The results of Shannon entropy were found to be in excellent agreement with those found in the literature. For more usefulness of these studies, the quantized momentum obtained was transformed into an energy equation with certain transformations. The energy equation was then used to calculate some thermodynamic properties such as vibrational mean energy, vibrational specific heat, vibrational mean free energy, and vibrational entropy via computation of the partition function. The thermodynamic properties studied for CO, NO, CH, and ScH showed that for a certain range of the temperature studied, the molecules exhibited similar features except for the vibrational entropy.