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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.08.079zbMATH Open1225.76037OpenAlexW1994083582MaRDI QIDQ644112FDOQ644112

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalselastic constantsorientational order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Molecular physics (81V55) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Cites Work

• Static domain wall solutions for smectic C liquid crystals and nematic liquid crystals in cylindrical geometry
• An elementary course on the continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals

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• Effect of elastic constants of liquid crystals in their electro-optical properties

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