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Fluctuational Effects in the Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. E. I. Kats

    1. L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  2. V. V. Lebedev

    1. L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Nematic Liquid Crystals

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 1-15

  3. Smectic Liquid Crystals

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 16-35

  4. Fluctuation Effects in Smectic Liquid Crystals

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 36-65

  5. Columnar Phases of Liquid Crystals

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 66-86

  6. Chiral Liquid Crystals

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 87-109

  7. Freely Suspended Films

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 110-132

  8. Langmuir Films and Membranes

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 133-160

  9. Conclusion

    • E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev
    Pages 161-161

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 163-170
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About this book

Liquid crystals, widely used in displays for electronic equipment and other applications, have highly unusual properties arising from the anisotropy of their molecules. It appears that some aspects of the fluid dynamics of liquid crystals, such as their viscosity, can be understood only by considering the role played by thermal fluctuations. In order to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the experimental results, the authors devote a large part of the book to a derivation of the nonlinear dynamic equations and to a discussion of linearized equations for the various types of liquid crystals. The diagrammatic and other techniques they use are of general use in condensed matter physics, and this exposition should thus be of interest to all condensed-matter theorists.

Authors and Affiliations

  • L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fluctuational Effects in the Dynamics of Liquid Crystals

  • Authors: E. I. Kats, V. V. Lebedev

  • Series Title: Partially Ordered Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4332-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97981-6Published: 11 November 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8738-4Published: 30 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4332-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0941-5114

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 170

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Crystallography and Scattering Methods

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