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J Chem Phys. 2017 Sep 07;147(9):094501. doi: 10.1063/1.4995021.

Dynamic Kerr effect in a strong uniform AC electric field for interacting polar and polarizable molecules in the mean field approximation.

The Journal of chemical physics

Snehal D Deshmukh, Pierre-Michel Déjardin, Yuri P Kalmykov

Affiliations

  1. Microwave Research Lab, Department of Physics, Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad, 431004 Maharashtra, India.
  2. Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique (EA 4217), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.

PMID: 28886638 DOI: 10.1063/1.4995021

Abstract

Analytical formulas for the electric birefringence response of interacting polar and anisotropically polarizable molecules due to a uniform alternating electric field are derived using Berne's forced rotational diffusion model [B. J. Berne, J. Chem. Phys. 62, 1154 (1975)] in the nonlinear version described by Warchol and Vaughan [J. Chem. Phys. 71, 502 (1979)]. It is found for noninteracting molecules that the signal consists of a frequency-dependent DC component superimposed on an oscillatory part with a frequency twice that of the AC driving field. However, unlike noninteracting molecules, the AC part strongly deviates from its dilute counterpart. This suggests a possible way of motivating new experimental studies of intermolecular interactions involving electro-optical methods and complementary nonlinear dielectric relaxation experiments.

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