Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2000-07-03
Eur. Phys. J. B, 19, 323 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
30 pages including 15 figures, submitted to EPJ B, revised version a detailed discussion on the depolarization ratio is added
Scientific paper
10.1007/PL00011089
The theory of light scattering for a system of linear molecules with anisotropic polarizabilities is considered. As a starting point for our theory, we express the result of a scattering experiment in VV and VH symmetry as dynamic correlation functions of tensorial densities $\rho_{lm}(q)$ with $l=0$ and $l=2$. $l$, $m$ denote indices of spherical harmonics. To account for all observed hydrodynamic singularities, a generalization of the theory of Schilling and Scheidsteger \cite{schilling97} for these correlation functions is presented, which is capable to describe the light scattering experiments from the liquid regime to the glassy state. As a microscopic theory it fulfills all sum rules contrary to previous {\em phenomenological} theories. We emphasize the importance of the helicity index $m$ for the microscopic theory by showing, that only the existence of $m=1$ components lead to the well known Rytov dip in liquids and to the appearance of transversal sound waves in VH symmetry in the deeply supercooled liquid and the glass. Exact expressions for the phenomenological frequency dependent rotation translation coupling coefficients of previous theories are derived.
Latz Arnulf
Letz M.
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