화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.544, 192-202, 2011
The Orientational Fluctuations in the Re-Orientation Process of a Nematic Liquid Crystal
The field-induced molecular reorientation of liquid crystals is usually described by the Frank-Oseen equation with several simplifying assumptions. Among them the oclassicalo theory ignores thermal fluctuations in the liquid crystal structure. As a consequence, the static Frank-Oseen equation may give inconsistent results in some details of the reorientation process. This work is aimed to include formally the orientational fluctuations in the field-induced reorientation process in nematics. The simplified approach presented here is a ozero-ordero approximation of the problem, nevertheless even in this form it allows for correct physical interpretation of the process for fields up to the threshold.