Numerical study of the isotropic-nematic phase transition in liquid crystals using the string method

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2017-0100MaRDI QIDQ5159760zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Yunzhi Li, Weiqing Ren

Publication date 28 October 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4208/CICP.OA-2017-0100

zbMATH Keywords

collective variablesliquid crystalorder parameterphase transitionstring method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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