Dynamics of Lyotropic Lamellar Phases

Ramaswamy, Sriram and Prost, J and Cai, W and Lubensky, TC (1993) Dynamics of Lyotropic Lamellar Phases. In: Europhysics Letters, 23 (4). pp. 271-276.

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Abstract

We model dilute lyotropic smectics as a periodic stack of compressible-fluid membranes with width w separated by an incompressible background fluid of thickness d-w. We calculate the dynamical modes for this model as a function of the wave number q. For qd \ll 1, we find precisely the hydrodynamic modes of a two-component smectic. For qd \gg 1, we find various non-hydrodynamic modes which may be observable in experiment

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Europhysics Letters
Publisher:	Institute of Physics
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Physics.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for Theoretical Studies (Ceased to exist at the end of 2003) Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:46
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/14633

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