Title

The Decay of Unstable Orientational States of Nematic Liquid Crystals Interacting with a Laser Field

Abstract

We show that the rate of relaxation is an important characteristic of the dynamics of critical systems undergoing second order phase transition, which are, in fact, still in effective motion even after the order parameter is reaching its steady state value. As a model system, we investigate the instability of the orientational state of a nematic liquid crystal acted on by a laser field and present the measurement of the initial fluctuations that start up the decay of the unstable state. © Les Édition de Physique 1997.

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Publication Title

Journal de Physique II

Volume

7

Issue

9

Number of Pages

1143-1153

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1997113

Socpus ID

0031237441 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0031237441

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