Microscopic and macroscopic theories for the dynamics of polar liquid crystals

Details Microscopic and macroscopic theories for the dynamics of polar liquid crystals Microscopic and macroscopic theories for the dynamics of polar liquid crystals

2011-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/1107.3316v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages

Scientific paper

We derive and analyze the dynamic equations for polar liquid crystals in two spatial dimensions in the framework of classical dynamical density functional theory (DDFT). Translational density variations, polarization, and quadrupolar order are used as order-parameter fields. The results are critically compared with those obtained using the macroscopic approach of time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equations for the analogous order-parameter fields. We demonstrate that for both the microscopic DDFT and the macroscopic GL approach the resulting dissipative dynamics can be derived from a dissipation function. We obtain microscopic expressions for all diagonal contributions and for many of the cross-coupling terms emerging from a GL approach. Thus we establish a bridge between molecular correlations and macroscopic modeling for the dissipative dynamics of polar liquid crystals.

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