The nematic phase of a system of long hard rods

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1767-1MaRDI QIDQ368562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Margherita Disertori, A. Giuliani

Publication date 23 September 2013

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5564

zbMATH Keywords

lattice modelliquid crystalsnematic phasePirogov-Sinai methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We consider a two-dimensional lattice model for liquid crystals consisting of long rods interacting via purely hard core interactions, with two allowed orientations defined by the underlying lattice. We rigorously prove the existence of a nematic phase, i.e., we show that at intermediate densities the system exhibits orientational order, either horizontal or vertical, but no positional order. The proof is based on a two-scales cluster expansion: we first coarse grain the system on a scale comparable with the rods' length; then we express the resulting effective theory as a contour's model, which can be treated by Pirogov-Sinai methods.

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