Direct computation of the twist elastic coefficient of a nematic liquid crystal via Monte Carlo simulations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Steuer, Haiko ^a   Hess, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; TWIST ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18144395119     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.027802     Document Type: Article

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