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Studying liquid-crystal systems with impurities using matrix-formalism methods

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We use the matrix formalism to investigate a liquid-crystal system containing impurities. As an example, we calculate correlation functions for fluctuations of the director orientation and of the order parameter, which characterizes an isotropic subsystem.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 147, No. 2, pp. 323–327, May, 2006.

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Vasiliev, A.N. Studying liquid-crystal systems with impurities using matrix-formalism methods. Theor Math Phys 147, 716–720 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11232-006-0073-x

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