Molecular theory of nematic liquid crystals viewed as effect of collective excitation in ferromagnetic systems

Chinese Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-171

  Liu, Jian Jun ^a   Shen, Man ^a   Liu, Xiao Jing ^a   Yang, Guo Chen ^b  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Collective excitation; Nematic liquid crystals; Order parameters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERROMAGNETISM; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

COLLECTIVE EXCITATION; HEISENBERG'S EXCHANGE MODEL; ORDER PARAMETERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 32644441001     PISSN: 10091963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/15/1/026     Document Type: Article

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