Studying liquid-crystal systems with impurities using matrix-formalism methods

A. N. Vasiliev

National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv

Abstract: We use the matrix formalism to investigate a liquid-crystal system containing impurities. As an example, we calculate correlation functions for fluctuations of the director orientation and of the order parameter, which characterizes an isotropic subsystem.

Keywords: liquid crystal, impurities, correlation function.

Received: 27.07.2005
Revised: 17.10.2005

DOI: 10.4213/tmf1967

 English version: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2006, 147:2, 716–720

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