The review is devoted to theoretical and experimental problems in the study of liquid crystals
by light scattering methods. Nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid crystals in the isotropic …

Studies of critical opalescence near phase transitions in different systems are reviewed. The
fundamentals of the modern approach to the description of the propagation and scattering of …

Asymptotic properties of the Green's function of an electromagnetic field in the far zone of
biaxial anisotropic media are examined, based on ideas proposed by Lax and Nelson [Phys …

Formation of new transient walls by a constant magnetic field at the Fréedericsz critical value
has been observed. They are oriented along the initial alignment of the nematic phase of …

The phenomenon of extraordinary ray refraction in a helical liquid crystal with large
(compared to the light wavelength) pitch has been studied by theoretical and experimental …

Theoretical analysis of peculiarities of light propagating and scattering in smectic-A liquid
crystals is carried out. The optical anisotropy of the medium is incorporated in the analysis …

[en] The results obtained earlier for the scalar model are applied to the real problem of the
propagation of light in a uniaxial nematic crystal. It is shown that because of infrared …

L. Ts. Adzhemyan, AN Vasil'ev, MM Perekalin, Kh. Yu. Reittu, “Wave scattering in a
randomly inhomogeneous medium with long-range noise correlation function $\sim1/r$” …

We have studied the propagation of light waves in large liquid crystal samples in a
monodomain nematic phase. The strong scattering combined with the partial ordering of the …

Optical properties of nematic liquid crystals are considered. We analyze the light scattering
by director fluctuations, the singularities of the single light scattering and extinction …