The Smectic Phase of Spherical-Fan Shaped Molecules. A Computer Simulation Study

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2001-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103513v1

Chem. Phys. Lett., v341/1-2, 129 (2001).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 5 figures, RevTex4b

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0009-2614(01)00443-2

We have used Monte Carlo NPT computer simulations to study a system of spherical fan shaped particles made of three hard discs fused along a common diameter. The calculated equation of state indicates a strong, entropy driven, first order transition from the isotropic phase to a layered phase that has the basic characteristics of the usual smectic A mesophase but with strongly correlated rotations about the symmetry axes of neighbouring molecules.

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