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Elastic constants of Gay-Berne discotic nematic liquid crystals

Joachim StelzerMartin A. BatesLech LongaG. R. Luckhurst

Year: 1998 Journal:   Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Vol: 3318 Pages: 175-175   Publisher: SPIE

Abstract

We have used a direct correlation function approach to evaluate the elastic constants for the Gay-Berne discotic nematic phase from microscopic data, obtained from constant pressure Monte Carlo simulations.

Keywords:
Liquid crystal Monte Carlo method Discotic liquid crystal Constant (computer programming) Phase (matter) Materials science Function (biology) Condensed matter physics Optics Physics Quantum mechanics Computer science Mathematics

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