Multiscale approach to nematic liquid crystals via statistical field theory

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lu, Bing-Sui
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Statistical Field Theory; Continuum Approximation
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83085; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45042

We propose an approach to a multiscale problem in the theory of thermotropic uniaxial nematics based on the method of statistical field theory. This approach enables us to relate the coefficients A, B, C, L1, and L2 of the Landau-de Gennes free energy for the isotropic-nematic phase transition to th...