The spreading of the quantum-mechanical probability cloud for the ground state of the Morse and modified Po¨schl-Teller potentials, which controls the chemical and physical properties of some molecular systems, is studied in position and momentum space by means of global (Shannon's information entropy, variance) and local (Fisher's information) informationtheoretic measures. We establish a general relation between variance and Fisher's information, proving that, in the case of a real-valued and symmetric wavefunction, the well-known Cramer-Rao and Heisenberg uncertainty inequalities are equivalent. Finally, we discuss the asymptotics of all three information measures, showing that the ground state of these potentials saturates all the uncertainty relations in an appropriate limit of the parameter.
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