Directed percolation criticality in turbulent liquid crystals

作者:Takeuchi Kazumasa A*; Kuroda Masafumi; Chate Hugues; Sano Masaki
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2007, 99(23): 234503.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.234503

摘要

We experimentally investigate the critical behavior of a phase transition between two topologically different turbulent states of electrohydrodynamic convection in nematic liquid crystals. The statistical properties of the observed spatiotemporal intermittency regimes are carefully determined, yielding a complete set of static critical exponents in full agreement with those defining the directed percolation class in 2+1 dimensions. This constitutes the first clear and comprehensive experimental evidence of an absorbing phase transition in this prominent nonequilibrium universality class.

  • 出版日期2007-12-7
  • 单位中国地震局