Mesogenic lattice models with partly antinematic interactions producing uniaxial nematic phases

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

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  De Matteis, Giovanni ^a   Romano, Silvano ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALAMITICS; CENTERS-OF-MASS; FIELD TREATMENTS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; INTERACTING PARTICLES; LATTICE MODELS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MESOGENICS; MESOPHASES; MOLECULAR AXES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NEMATIC AND ISOTROPIC PHASIS; NEMATIC PHASIS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; ORTHONORMAL; PAIR POTENTIAL; POTENTIAL MODEL; POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; SCALAR PRODUCT; SECOND ORDER TRANSITION; SIMPLE-CUBIC LATTICES; THREE PARAMETERS; UNIT VECTORS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TOOLS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 70349510881     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031702     Document Type: Article

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