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Title:	Dynamics of transient domain structures in nematic liquid crystals: The splay Fréedericksz transition
Author:	Sagués i Mestre, Francesc; Arias, F.
Other authors:	Universitat de Barcelona
Abstract:	We discuss the dynamics of the transient pattern formation process corresponding to the splay Fréedericksz transition. The emergence and subsequent evolution of the spatial periodicity is here described in terms of the temporal dependence of the wave numbers corresponding to the maxima of the structure factor. Situations of perpendicular as well as oblique field-induced stripes relative to the initial orientation of the director are both examined with explicit indications of the time scales needed for their appearance and posterior development.
Publication date:	2010-05-04
Subject(s):	Cristalls líquids Transformacions de fase (Física estadística) Liquid crystals Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
Rights:	(c) The American Physical Society, 1988
Document type:	Article
Published by:	The American Physical Society
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