Entropy-driven phase transition in a polydisperse hard-rods lattice system

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 761-786

  Ioffe, D ^a   Velenik, Y ^b   Zahradnik M ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Convergence rate for renewal sequences; Hard rods; Liquid crystal; Monomer dimer model; Nematic order

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645897656     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-005-8085-8     Document Type: Article

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