Phase-ordering dynamics of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal

Details Phase-ordering dynamics of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal Phase-ordering dynamics of the Gay-Berne nematic liquid crystal

1999-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9906420v1

Phys. Rev. E 60, 6831 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 16 figures, animations available at http://www.physics.brown.edu/Users/faculty/pelcovits/lc/coarsening.html

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.60.6831

Phase-ordering dynamics in nematic liquid crystals has been the subject of much active investigation in recent years in theory, experiments and simulations. With a rapid quench from the isotropic to nematic phase a large number of topological defects are formed and dominate the subsequent equilibration process. We present here the results of a molecular dynamics simulation of the Gay-Berne model of liquid crystals after such a quench in a system with 65536 molecules. Twist disclination lines as well as type-1 lines and monopoles were observed. Evidence of dynamical scaling was found in the behavior of the spatial correlation function and the density of disclination lines. However, the behavior of the structure factor provides a more sensitive measure of scaling, and we observed a crossover from a defect dominated regime at small values of the wavevector to a thermal fluctuation dominated regime at large wavevector.

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