Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-11-21
Physical Review E 69, 041703 (2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRE
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.69.041703
We explore models of hard-rod fluids with a finite number of allowed orientations, and construct their bulk phase diagrams within Onsager's second virial theory. For a one-component fluid, we show that the discretization of the orientations leads to the existence of an artificial (almost) perfectly aligned nematic phase, which coexists with the (physical) nematic phase if the number of orientations is sufficiently large, or with the isotropic phase if the number of orientations is small. Its appearance correlates with the accuracy of sampling the nematic orientation distribution within its typical opening angle. For a binary mixture this artificial phase also exists, and a much larger number of orientations is required to shift it to such high densities that it does not interfere with the physical part of the phase diagram.
Roij René van
Shundyak Kostya
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