Dynamics of fluctuations below a stationary bifurcation to electroconvection in the planar nematic liquid crystal N4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Qiu, Xin Liang ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY RATES; ELECTROCONVECTION; PLANAR NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; SUPERCRITICAL BIFURCATIONS;

BINARY MIXTURES; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COPOLYMERS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONS; SET THEORY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18144388696     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.087802     Document Type: Article

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