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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.08.079MaRDI QIDQ644112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

elastic constantsliquid crystalsorientational order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscoelastic fluids (76A10) Liquid crystals (76A15) 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)

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• An elementary course on the continuum theory for nematic liquid crystals
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