A solid-state broadband beam deflector is described. This non-mechanical system steers spatially coherent broad band light to a common location in the far field. The components include a liquid crystal grating and achromatic Fourier transformer. The liquid crystal grating employs a polarization modulation scheme which produces a wavelength independent phase shift. The achromatic Fourier transfo...

A mean field theory is presented to describe cholesteric phases in mixtures of a polymer and a cholesteric liquid crystal. Taking into account an anisotropic coupling between a polymer and a liquid crystal, we examine the helical pitch, twist elastic constant, and phase separations. Analytical expressions of the helical pitch of a cholesteric phase and the twist elastic constant are derived as ...

The vibration-rotation states of a tetrahedral molecule in a field of D3h symmetry are studied by an extended group theory. Symmetry adapted rotational wave functions for the ground and the triply degenerate excited vibrational states are constructed. The crystal field potential is derived explicitly for a tetrahedral molecule in a hexagonal close-packed crystal. As an example, the rovibrationa...

We develop a fully continuous model for colloidal suspensions with hydrodynamic interactions. The Navier-Stokes Phase-Field Crystal model combines ideas of dynamic density functional theory with particulate flow approaches and is derived in detail and related to other dynamic density functional theory approaches with hydrodynamic interactions. The derived system is numerically solved using adap...

Theoretical study of the crystal field parameters and zero-field splitting parameter Mn2+-doped langbeinite Tl2Cd2(SO4)3 single crystals is done using superposition model perturbation theory. The found here matches well with experimental value. theoretical supports conclusion that Mn2+ substitutes for Cd2+ in crystal.

A crystal field analysis of the energy level structure of Cr3+ in MgO crystal is performed, using the exchange charge model of the crystal field theory. The crystal field parameters acting on the optical electrons of Cr3+ are calculated from the crystal structure data; good agreement between the calculated and observed energy levels of Cr3+ in the title host is demonstrated. The Stokes shift S=...