Dielectric relaxation theory in nematic liquids

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Abstract
The dipole relaxation behaviour in liquid crystals as a function of the molecular ordering has been interpreted theoretically. The decay function of the electric dipole polarization has been calculated in terms of the correlation function of the Wigner rotation matrices. The orientational potential energy function has been expanded as a series of Legendre polynomials, and the contributions of the various terms investigated.