Structures and transitions in thin hybrid nematic films: A Monte Carlo study

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages

  Chiccoli, C ^a   Pasini, P ^a   Sarlah, A ^b,c   Zannoni, C ^d   Zumer S ^b,c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; WETTING;

BENDING TRANSITION; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; LEBWOHL-LASHER LATTICE SPIN MODEL; STRUCTURAL TRANSITION; WETTING-INDUCED PHENOMENA;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649032795     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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