Cina Research Notes

The following are a selection of Jeff Cina's Research Notes.

These files contain Jeff Cina's mostly hand-written notes on 6 full chapters from Landau and Lifshitz’s Electrodynamics of Continuous Media. 

Included are notes for the following chapters:

  1. Electrostatics of Conductors
  2. Electrostatics of Dielectrics
  3. Static Magnetic Field
  4. Quasistatic Electromagnetic Field
  5. The Electromagnetic Wave Equations
  6. Diffraction of X-rays in Crystals

Also included are:

  • Notes on ECM Chapter VI. Superconductivity
  • Sections 23 & 24 of L&L's Classical Theory of Fields (on The electromagnetic field tensor and Loentz transformation of the field)
  • Sections 123 & 124 from L&L's Statistical Physics, Part 1 (on the generalized Susceptibility and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, respectively)
  • A Lecture or two from Feynman's lecture series (including the one on Faraday's Law of Induction)
  • Several Chapter from Purcell's Undergraduate E & M book
  1. L&L Notes Page 1-100
  2. L&L Notes Pages 101-200
  3. L&L Notes Pages 201-300
  4. L&L Notes Pages 301-400
  5. L&L Notes Pages 401-500
  6. L&L Notes Page 501-600
  7. L&L Notes Page 601-734

Jeff Cina's notes on femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

  1. How fissors works
  2. Fissors dipole sudden force flip
  3. Simplified 2-mode model for fissors
  4. Setting up numerical calcs fissors signal
  5. Going After Raman Tensor

Miscellaneous Notes

  • Jeff Cina's notes on Kramer's 1940 Paper on Brownian motion in a field of force 
  • Jeff Cina's notes on Wang & Uhlenbeck's 1945 review of Brownian Motion 
  • Jeff Cina's notes on Comparing md-WPI & FWM - Part 1 
  • Jeff Cina's notes on Comparing md-WPI & FWM - Part 2 
  • Jeff Cina's derivation and analysis of Redfield theory
  • Jeff Cina's notes on md-WPI and heterodyne-detected FWM for molecule with two electron levels 
  • Jeff Cina's analysis of Spectrally resolved transient grating spectroscopy 
  • Jeff Cina's notes on Segale & Apkarian's 5-color 4-wave mixing experiments 
  • Jeff Cina's notes on Gottfried & Jan's Quantum Mechanics Interpretation Chapter (April 2012) 
  • Jeff Cina's Notes on Laszlo Tiszas Thermodynamics - Pages 1-20
  • Jeff Cina's Notes on Laszlo Tiszas Thermodynamics - Pages 21-41
  • Jeff Cina's Notes on Laszlo Tiszas Thermodynamics - Pages 41-61
  • Jeff Cina's Notes on Weyl and Wigner
  • Jeff Cina's Notes on Electronic absorption via variational FVBGB

Notes on Transient transmission signals from a one-chromophore system

Jeff Cina's Notes on Transient transmission signals from a one-chromophore system: short-pulse escitation and probing of spectrally resolved stimulated-emission, ground-state bleach, excited-state absorption, and transient signal contributions.

  • Transient transmission signals- Pages 1-20
  • Transient transmission signals- Pages 21-43

Rackovsky & Silbey Electronic Energy Transfer in Impure Solids Notes

  • Part 1a
  • Part 1b
  • Part 1c
  • Part 1d
  • Part 1e
  • Part 1f
  • Part 2a
  • Part 2b
  • Part 2c
  • Electronic Energy Transfer