Resources and tools

This is a collected list of useful web articles, links, books, guides, softwares, etc. to help in doing research for Project Elara.

Recommended books and textbooks

• Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, in particular the sections on solid-state physics
• Feynmann, The Feynmann Lectures on Physics
• Träger et. al., Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics
• LibreTexts - a collection of excellent open-access books, here are some relevant chapters taken from various LibreTexts books:
  • Matrix Mechanics - describes bra-ket notation
  • Introduction to the Density Matrix - describes density matrices
• Griffiths, Consistent Quantum Theory (online link) (this is not the same Griffiths as the other more famous one)
• Vanier, Basic Theory of Lasers and Masers
• Filot, Elements of Electronic Structure Theory (Ebook with execises available)
• Struve, Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy
• Svelto, Principles of Lasers, 5th ed.
• Filot, Elements of Electronic Structure Theory

Websites

General

• Mathematics for Quantum Mechanics from Delft University of Technology

Materials

• Refractive indexes database

RF technologies

• Antenna theory

Computational electromagnetics

• Particle-in-cell leapfrog integration (for magnetostatics) as well as electromagnetic leapfrog integration for electromagnetics

Lasers

• RP Photonics Encyclopedia
• Neodynium ion in Nd-YAG laser - energy levels and also similar article
• Guide to the He-Ne laser

Atomic & molecular physics/spectrosocopy

• The Quantum Physics pages from HyperPhysics. Some selected pages are linked below:
  • Rotational transitions
  • Molecular spectra
  • Atomic properties
  • Vibrational spectra

Quantum electrodynamics

• Electromagnetic Hamiltonian for charged particles

Developer resources

• The QuTiP tutorials - QuTiP is a python library for simulating quantum systems, and while I might not strictly need it, their tutorials are very good
  • Intro to QuTiP (this is mostly focused on discrete, although it does show a calculation of eigenenergies and an example of the quantum harmonic oscillator)
  • Single-atom lasing (a model of a two-state atomic laser)
• Wolfram Mathematica-based resoures:
  • Carbon atomic transitions - note that this extracts data from a database, it does not actually calculate anything
  • Molecule encoding (this can be used in combination with the SpectralLineData function)

Software packages/codes

• Optical spectra calculations
  • https://github.com/leosilve/Molecular-crystals-spectra
  • https://github.com/thekannman/z_terahertz
• Optics simulator (found by Milo): https://phydemo.app/ray-optics/simulator/
• Gaussian beam simulator: https://gaussianbeam.sourceforge.net/