Structural ordering and spectral properties of smectic A with biaxial solute molecules

Abstract

The influence of (i) orientational-translational ordering of solvent and solute molecules, (ii) anisotropic intermolecular solute–solvent interactions and (iii) the features of the electronic structure of biaxial solute molecules dissolved in a smectic A phase on the spectral position of polarized bands of a solute electronic absorption has been investigated. Equations for the positional-orientational pseudopotential in a pure smectic A doped with biaxial solute molecules have been obtained within the framework of the molecular statistical approach. The question about the correlation of contributions of partial orientational and translational molecular ordering to the spectral properties of a molecular system has been answered.