Dispersion of Collective Excitations in a Nematic Liquid Crystal
- 2 February 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 36 (5) , 264-267
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.36.264
Abstract
Coherent inelastic neutron scattering in fully deuterated nematic -azoxyanisole indicates, for momentum transfers perpendicular to the director , phononlike collective excitations having a dispersion with two maxima and one minimum within .
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