Pair correlation functions in nematics: Free-energy functional and isotropic-nematic transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Mishra, Pankaj ^a   Singh, Yashwant ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FREE ENERGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPIC MOLECULES; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; ORNSTEIN ZERNIKE EQUATION; PERCUS YEVICK CLOSURE RELATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33750423017     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.177801     Document Type: Article

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