Effective triplet interactions in nematic colloids
arXiv:cond-mat/0701716 · doi:10.1140/epje/i2006-10065-5
Abstract
Three-body effective interactions emerging between parallel cylindrical rods immersed in a nematic liquid crystals are calculated within the Landau-de Gennes free energy description. Collinear, equilateral and midplane configurations of the three colloidal particles are considered. In the last two cases the effective triplet interaction is of the same magnitude and range as the pair one.
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