Abstract
The theory based on numerical study of the system of hydrodynamic equations, which includes the director motion, shows that under the influence of crossed electric and magnetic fields, the director reorients in such a way that the transient quasiperiodic patterns may arise in microsized nematic volumes if the corresponding distortion mode has the fastest response and thus suppresses all other modes, including uniform ones. It has been shown that there is a threshold value of the amplitude of the thermal fluctuations of the director over the microsized nematic film which provides the nonuniform rotation mode rather than the uniform one, whereas the lower values of the amplitude dominate the uniform mode.
2 More- Received 23 December 2023
- Accepted 11 April 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.044704
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