Temporal Fluctuations in Nematic Liquid Crystals

1995/11/28 by Yan Gu, Gu Yan, Yan, Gu +3
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Plant and animal studies #cond-mat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9511131

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arxiv created 1995/11/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We use a set of simplified non-linear Langevin equations to study the hydrodynamic excitations in a nematic liquid crystal. We calculate the one-loop self-energy corrections in the long wavelength limit.

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