Density functional theory for soft matter with mesoscopic length scale fluctuations included within field-theoretic formalism
arXiv:0809.2900 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061505
Abstract
Mesoscopic theory for soft-matter systems that combines density functional and statistical field theory is derived from the microscopic theory by a systematic coarse-graining procedure. Within the framework of this theory we obtain the universal sequence of phases: disordered, bcc, hexagonal, lamellar, inverted hexagonal, inverted bcc, disordered, for increasing density well below the close-packing density. In addition to the above phases, more complex phases may appear depending on the interaction potentials. For a particular form of the short-range attraction long-range repulsion potential we find the bicontinuous gyroid phase (Ia3d symmetry) that may be related to a network forming cluster of colloids in a mixture of colloids and nonadsorbing polymers.
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