Numerical Study of the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in Liquid Crystals using the String Method

DOI10.4208/cicp.OA-2017-0100zbMath1488.76011WikidataQ128547072 ScholiaQ128547072MaRDI QIDQ5159760

Weiqing Ren, Yunzhi Li

Publication date: 28 October 2021

Published in: Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionorder parameterliquid crystalstring methodcollective variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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• Higher order string method for finding minimum energy paths
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