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Optically induced chaotic behavior in nematic liquid-crystal films

1993; American Physical Society; Volume: 47; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreve.47.3741

1538-4519

G. Cipparrone, V. Carbone, C. Versacé, Cesare Umeton, Roberto Bartolino, F. Simoni,

Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

In this paper we report the dynamical behavior occurring in a nematic liquid-crystal film during the optically induced molecular reorientation. The system at first undergoes an incomplete period-doubling cascade, then a biperiodic regime appears, and finally a transition to a chaotic regime occurs. This sequence is experimental evidence of a physical system that mixes two different routes for the transition to a chaotic regime.