2002/08/23 by Friederike Schmid, Schmid, Friederike, Nguyen H. Phuong +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0208448
To appear in "Morphology of Condensed Matter: Physics and Geometry of Spatially Complex Systems", Lecture Notes in Physics, K. Mecke and D. Stoyan eds., Springer Verlag (2002)
arxiv created 2002/08/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Computer simulations of simple model systems for liquid crystals are briefly reviewed, with special emphasis on systems of ellipsoids. First, we give an overview over some of the most commonly studied systems (ellipsoids, Gay-Berne particles, spherocylinders). Then we discuss the structure of the nematic phase in the bulk and at interfaces.