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This is an analysis of the relationships between the time-independent Schrodinger equation and the information entropy maximization. We first compute entropies of various states of the three simple quantum systems, namely, the box-particle, the harmonic oscillator, and the hydrogen atom for re-examination and then find the nature of continuous entropy is a relative concept. We use potential equivalent theorem as a constraint, and through the maximum-entropy procedure we obtain the ground state Schrodinger equation of the systems. It is also found that there exists a variational procedure involving maximizing entropy for obtaining all solutions of the excited states once one solution is known. In the light of information theory, the ensemble concept in statistical thermodynamics is helpful to understand microscopic quantum systems and many quantum mechanical concepts.
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