Elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal: quadrupole-quadrupole interaction in the ellipsoidal approximation

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.079zbMath1225.76037MaRDI QIDQ644112

Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date: 2 November 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.079

zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystals; elastic constants; orientational order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82C22: Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics

76A10: Viscoelastic fluids

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

76A15: Liquid crystals

81V55: Molecular physics