Entropy and correlations in a fluid of hard spherocylinders: The onset of nematic and smectic order

Details Entropy and correlations in a fluid of hard spherocylinders: The onset of nematic and smectic order Entropy and correlations in a fluid of hard spherocylinders: The onset of nematic and smectic order

2002-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0204423v2

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106, 12297-12306 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

15 pages, 11 figures, Final version with minor revisions. In press on J. Phys. Chem. B (2002)

Scientific paper

10.1021/jp0259317

Hard spherocylinders (cylinders of length $L$ and diameter $D$ capped at both ends with two hemispheres) provide a suitable model for investigating entropy-driven, mesophase formations in real colloidal fluids that are composed of rigid rodlike molecules. We performed extensive Monte Carlo simulations of this model fluid for elongations in the range $3 \leq L/D \leq 5$ and up to $L/D = 20$, in order to investigate the relative importance of translational and orientational correlations allowing for the emergence of nematic or smectic order in the framework of the so-called residual multi-particle entropy (RMPE). The vanishing of this quantity, which includes the re-summed contributions of all spatial correlations involving more than two particles, signals the structural changes which take place, at increasing densities, in the isotropic fluid. We found that the ordering thresholds detected through the zero-RMPE condition systematically correlate with the corresponding phase-transition points, whatever the nature of the higher-density phase coexisting with the isotropic fluid.

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