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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2013

Metric approach for sound propagation in nematic liquid crystals

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In the eikonal approach, we describe sound propagation near to topological defects of nematic liquid crystal as geodesics of a non-euclidian manifold endowed with an effective metric tensor. The relation between the acoustics of the medium and this geometrical description is given by Fermat's principle. We calculate the ray trajectories and propose a diffraction experiment to retrieve informations about the elastic constants.

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hal-01431367 , version 1 (10-01-2017)

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E. Pereira, Sébastien Fumeron, F. Moraes. Metric approach for sound propagation in nematic liquid crystals. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2013, 87 (2), 022506 / 6p. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.87.022506⟩. ⟨hal-01431367⟩
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