Phase diagram of a system of hard spherocylinders by computer simulation
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 41 (6), 3237-3244
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.41.3237
Abstract
We report a computer-simulation study of the phase diagram of a system of hard spherocylinders with aspect ratio L/D between 0 and 5. For L/D≤3 only isotropic liquid and crystalline solid phases can occur. For L/D=3 a mechanically stable smectic phase occurs, but it is thermodynamically unstable. For larger L/D values, stable smectic and nematic phases are present.Keywords
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