title: Dynamical scaling in two-dimensional quenched uniaxial nematic liquid crystals.
abstract: The phase-ordering kinetics of the two-dimensional uniaxial nematic has been studied using a cell dynamic scheme. The system after quench from T=infinity was found to scale dynamically with an asymptotic growth law similar to that of the two-dimensional O(2) model (quenched from above the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature), i.e., L (t) approximately [t/ln (t/ t(0) ) ](1/2) (with nonuniversal time scale t(0) ). We obtained the true asymptotic limit of the growth law by performing our simulation for a sufficiently long time. The presence of topologically stable 1/2 -disclination points is reflected in the observed large-momentum dependence k(-4) of the structure factor. The correlation function was also found to tally with the theoretical prediction of the correlation function for the two-dimensional O(2) system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India. subhro@juphys.ernet.in
authors.forename: Subhrajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.forename: Soumen Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Roy