Soft-mode turbulence (SMT) is one of an experimental example of spatiotemporal chaos, observed in electroconvection system of homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal (NLC), due to a non-linear interaction between Nambu-Goldstone mode denoted by the C(r)- director and the convective mode q(r). There are two types of stripe patterns in the SMT, namely normal rolls (NR) and oblique rolls (OR) which separated by a point of applied frequency, called the Lifshitz frequency (f L ). We report a study of the phase transition from normal to oblique rolls by observing the patterns with an applied frequency below and beyond of fL . The temporal fluctuations of the pattern images had been analyzed using autocorrelation function. It fits with Kohlrausch Williams Watts (KWW) function, showing there is a dynamical glass-forming liquid in the transition of NR-OR regime. Also, we found a new type of defect in the NR regime which never been reported before, a dynamic defect which takes the shape of a ring first to a spot in the end.
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Saraswati, V., & Nugroho, F. (2018). Characteristic Exponent of Normal and Oblique Rolls in Homeotropically Aligned Nematic Liquid Crystal. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1011). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1011/1/012051