Polar fluids linear response theory

In linear response theory the optical activity is obtained from the part of the generalized susceptibility involving the temporal correlations of the electric and magnetic polarization fields46,47. For a system such as a normal fluid, described by a statistical operator that is invariant under space and time translations, the appropriate retarded Green function is,... 

Our linear-response dielectric-relaxation theory (the ACF method) was born on a domain bordered by physical electronics and by molecular and chemical physics. The method had started from Refs. 20 and 21. In our study of polar fluids we may distinguish the following three periods. 

A general approach (VIG, GT) to a linear-response analytical theory, which is used in our work, is viewed briefly in Section V.B. In Section V.C we consider the main features of the hat-curved model and present the formulae for its dipolar autocorrelator—that is, for the spectral function (SF) L(z). (Until Section V.E we avoid details of the derivation of this spectral function L). Being combined with the formulas, given in Section V.B, this correlator enables us to calculate the wideband spectra in liquids of interest. In Section V.D our theory is applied to polar fluids and the results obtained will be summarized and discussed. 

One optical feature of helicoidal structures is the ability to rotate the plane of incident polarized light. Since most of the characteristic optical properties of chiral liquid crystals result from the helicoidal structure, it is necessary to understand the origin of the chiral interactions responsible for the twisted structures. The continuum theory of liquid crystals is based on the Frank-Oseen approach to curvature elasticity in anisotropic fluids. It is assumed that the free energy is a quadratic function of curvature elastic strain, and for positive elastic constants the equilibrium state in the absence of surface or external forces is one of zero deformation with a uniform, parallel director. If a term linear in the twist strain is permitted, then spontaneously twisted structures can result, characterized by a pitch p, or wave-vector q=27tp i, where i is the axis of the helicoidal structure. For the simplest case of a nematic, the twist elastic free energy density can be written as ... 

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