Abstract
We show experimentally that for the electrohydrodynamic instability in nematic liquid crystals the threshold for the onset of spatial turbulence can be increased by at least a factor of 2 by superimposing noise on the applied voltage. We find that for sufficiently high noise intensities a direct transition from the spatially homogeneous state to turbulence via intermittency can be induced.
- Received 2 August 1984
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.555
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