Light-induced second-order phase transition in a spatially bounded region of a nematic liquid crystal
Zolot'ko A. S. , Kitieva V. F. , Kuyumchyan V. A. , Sobolev N. N. , Sukhorukov A. P.
The dynamics of reorientation and relaxation of the director field of a homeotropic OCBP crystal in a narrow light beam is studied experimentally and theoretically. Specific properties are observed.