title: Homoclinic gluing bifurcations during the light induced reorientation in nematic-liquid-crystal films.
abstract: An s-polarized laser beam that impinges at small incidence angle on a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal produces very interesting nonlinear phenomena. In this paper, we show that, due to the symmetry of the system, a cascade of successive homoclinic gluing bifurcations is responsible for the transition towards a stochastic regime in the experiment. We compare the experimental results with a model describing a sequence of gluing bifurcations.
authors: Dipartimento di Fisica and Istituto di Fisica della Materia, Università della Calabria, 87036 Rende CS, Italy.
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