Derivation of a three-dimensional phase-field-crystal model for liquid crystals from density functional theory

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

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Wittkowski, Raphael ^a   Löwen, Hartmut ^a   Brand, Helmut R ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MODELS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; GINZBURG-LANDAU; HYDRODYNAMIC DESCRIPTION; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; ORDER PARAMETER; PHASE FIELDS; PREFACTORS; SPATIAL DIMENSION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 78651254017     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031708     Document Type: Article

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