Rotational diffusion and orientation relaxation of rodlike molecules in a biaxial liquid crystal phase

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 362-376

  Coffey, William T ^a   Kalmykov, Yury P ^b   Ouari, Bachir ^b   Titov, Sergey V ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c INST OF RADIO ENG AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biaxial liquid crystal; Kramers escape rate theory; Mean field approximation; Orientational relaxation; Rotational diffusion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BIAXIAL LIQUID CRYSTAL; KRAMERS ESCAPE RATE THEORY; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; ORIENTATIONAL RELAXATION; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 33744797364     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.12.054     Document Type: Article

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