Biaxial and uniaxial phases produced by partly repulsive mesogenic models involving D2h molecular symmetries

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

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Matteis, Giovanni De ^a   Romano, Silvano ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

BIAXIALITY; CENTERS-OF-MASS; EXTENDED RANGE; GROUND-STATE; INTERACTING PARTICLES; ISOTROPIC PHASE; LATTICE MODELING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEAN FIELDS; MEAN-FIELD ANALYSIS; MESOGENIC; MOLECULAR SYMMETRIES; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PAIR POTENTIALS; PARAMETER SPACES; POTENTIAL MODELING; POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; SCALAR PRODUCTS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; SECOND-ORDER TRANSITIONS; SIMPLE-CUBIC LATTICES; THREE PARAMETERS; UNIT VECTORS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 49449102768     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021702     Document Type: Article

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