Non-nematicity of the filamentary phase in systems of hard minor circular arcs

This work further investigates an aspect of the phase behavior of hard circular arcs whose phase diagram has been recently calculated by Monte Carlo numerical simulations: the non-nematicity of the filamentary phase that hard minor circular arcs form. Both second-virial density-functional theory and...

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Autores: Ramírez González, Juan Pedro, Cinacchi, Giorgio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/720311
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/720311
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.044701
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:non-nematicity
filamentary phase
systems of hard minor circular arcs
Monte Carlo methods
Física
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Sumario:This work further investigates an aspect of the phase behavior of hard circular arcs whose phase diagram has been recently calculated by Monte Carlo numerical simulations: the non-nematicity of the filamentary phase that hard minor circular arcs form. Both second-virial density-functional theory and further Monte Carlo numerical simulations find that the positional one-particle density function undulates in the direction transverse to the axes of the filaments while further Monte Carlo numerical simulations find that the mobility of the hard minor circular arcs across the filaments occurs via a mechanism reminiscent of the mechanism of diffusion in a smectic phase: the filamentary phase is not a {"modulated"["splay(-bend)"]} nematic phase