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Fluctuating Interfaces in Liquid Crystals
Friederike Schmid, Guido Germano, Stefan Wolfsheimer +1
We review and compare recent work on the properties of fluctuating interfaces between nematic and isotropic liquid-crystalline phases. Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation…
Nematic-Isotropic Interfaces Under Shear: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Guido Germano, Friederike Schmid
We present a large-scale molecular dynamics study of nematic-paranematic interfaces under shear. We use a model of soft repulsive ellipsoidal particles with well-known equilibrium…
Computer simulation of topological defects around a colloidal particle or droplet dispersed in a nematic host
D. Andrienko, G. Germano, M. P. Allen
We use molecular dynamics to study the ordering of a nematic liquid crystal around a spherical particle or droplet. Homeotropic boundary conditions and strong anchoring create a he…
Liquid crystal director fluctuations and surface anchoring by molecular simulation
D. Andrienko, G. Germano, M. P. Allen
We propose a simple and reliable method to measure the liquid crystal surface anchoring strength by molecular simulation. The method is based on the measurement of the long-range f…
Elastic constants from direct correlation functions in nematic liquid crystals: a computer simulation study
Nguyen Hoang Phuong, Guido Germano, Friederike Schmid
Density functional theories such as the Poniewierski-Stecki theory relate the elastic properties of nematic liquid crystals with their local liquid structure, i.e., with the direct…