Polar liquid crystals in two spatial dimensions: The bridge from microscopic to macroscopic modeling

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

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

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

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MOLECULE; COUPLING CONSTANTS; COUPLING TERMS; FREE ENERGY DENSITY; IN-LINE; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; MACROSCOPIC MODELING; MOLECULAR CORRELATIONS; NEMATIC ORDER; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ORDER-PARAMETER; POLAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPATIAL DIMENSION;

CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MONOLAYERS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79961055452     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.061706     Document Type: Article

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