Pattern forming instability induced by light in pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals
Soft Condensed Matter
2010-01-29 v1
Abstract
We study theoretically the instabilities induced by a linearly polarized ordinary light wave incident at a small oblique angle on a thin layer of homeotropically oriented nematic liquid crystal with special emphasis on the dye-doped case. The spatially periodic Hopf bifurcation that occurs as the secondary instability after the stationary Freedericksz transition is analyzed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207101,
title = {Pattern forming instability induced by light in pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals},
author = {D. O. Krimer and G. Demeter and L. Kramer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207101},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
8 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX, accepted to Phys. Rev. E