A unified microscopic description of the smectic-A, nematic and isotropic phases of liquid crystals

K. Sokalski

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1982, vol. 113, issue 1, 133-144

Abstract: Introducing a simplified description of the smectic-A phase by a single particle distribution function of two variables we derive an integral equation which uniquely describes the smectic-A, nematic and isotropic phases of a liquid crystal. Using the potential for the interaction between two mono-axial molecules derived in a recent paper, we solve this equation. With the aid of this solution we calculate the order parameters which are convenient for the description of the phase transitions.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(82)90011-5

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