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A Smooth Interface Method for Simulating Liquid Crystal Colloid Dispersions

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

A new method is presented for mesoscopic simulations of particle dispersions in liquid crystal solvents. It allows efficient first-principle simulations of the dispersions involving many particles with many-body interactions mediated by the solvents. Demonstrations have been performed for the aggregation of colloid dispersions in two-dimensional nematic and smectic-C* solvents neglecting hydrodynamic effects, which will be taken into account in the near future.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310734,
  title  = {A Smooth Interface Method for Simulating Liquid Crystal Colloid Dispersions},
  author = {Ryoichi Yamamoto and Yasuya Nakayama and Kang Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310734},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures