Antinematic orientational order produced by an extreme case of the generalized Straley lattice model.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Dipartimento di Matematica F Casorati, Università di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy.

Published: August 2012

We address here a special, extreme case of the quadratic pair interaction potential between classical, D(2h)-symmetric particles (the generalized Straley model) on a three-dimensional simple cubic lattice. The model involves predominant antinematic couplings and it has been studied by Monte Carlo simulation and a molecular field treatment. The obtained results show a second-order transition between the isotropic phase and the low-temperature one, exhibiting uniaxial antinematic order.

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