Multiple light scattering in nematic liquid crystals
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
We present a rigorous treatment of the diffusion approximation for multiple light scattering in anisotropic random media, and apply it to director fluctuations in a nematic liquid crystal. For a typical nematic material, 5CB, we give numerical values of the diffusion constants and . We also calculate the temporal autocorrelation function measured in Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9607049,
title = {Multiple light scattering in nematic liquid crystals},
author = {Holger Stark and Tom C. Lubensky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9607049},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages RevTeX, 1 postscript figure, to be published in Phys. Rev. E (Rapid Communication)