Glass Formation in the Gay-Berne Nematic Liquid Crystal
arXiv:cond-mat/9609277
Abstract
We present the results of molecular dynamics simulations of the Gay-Berne model of liquid crystals, supercooled from the nematic phase. We find a glass transition to a metastable phase with nematic order and frozen translational and orientational degrees of freedom. For fast quench rates the local structure is nematic-like, while for slower quench rates smectic order is present as well.
10 pages, 6 figures