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We investigate the orientational properties of a homogeneous and inhomogeneous tetrahedral 4-patch fluid (Kern--Frenkel model). Using integral equations, either (i) HNC or (ii) a modified HNC scheme with simulation input, the full…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-07 Alessandro Simon , Luc Belloni , Daniel Borgis , Martin Oettel

Starting from Newton's equations of motion, we derive a dynamical density functional theory (DDFT) applicable to atomic liquids. The theory has the feature that it requires as input the Helmholtz free energy functional from equilibrium…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Archer

We study the role of anisotropic steric interactions in a system of hard Brownian needles. Despite having no volume, non-overlapping needles exclude a volume in configuration space that influences the macroscopic evolution of the system.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Maria Bruna , S. Jon Chapman , Markus Schmidtchen

We numerically investigate two-dimensional systems of hard rectangles at constant pressure through extensive hard-particle Monte Carlo simulations. We determine the complete phase diagram as a function of packing fraction and aspect ratio,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-15 Denis Dertli , Thomas Speck

On the basis of the application of the (Onsager) second-virial density functional theory to an artificial system that is so designed as to be the best promoter of a ``splay(-bend)'' nematic phase, it is argued that this ``modulated''…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-25 Giorgio Cinacchi

We construct the complete liquid crystal phase diagram of hard plate-like cylinders for variable aspect ratio using Onsager's second virial theory with the Parsons-Lee decoupling approximation to account for higher-body interactions in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 H. H. Wensink , H. N. W. Lekkerkerker

In this work we study in a formal way the density dependent hadron field theory at finite temperature for nuclear matter. The thermodynamical potential and related quantities, as energy density and pressure are derived in two different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Avancini , M. E. Bracco , M. Chiapparini , D. P. Menezes

The fundamental measure density functional theory for hard spheres is generalized to binary mixtures of arbitrary positive and moderate negative non-additivity between unlike components. In bulk the theory predicts fluid-fluid phase…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Schmidt

The theory of nematic-smectic phase transition in the system of uniform semi-flexible chains with hard-core repulsion is presented. Both the general density-functional formalism the tube-model calculation show that the flexibility of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei V. Tkachenko

We consider a system of particles interacting via a purely repulsive, soft-core potential recently introduced to model effective pair interactions between dendrimers, which is expected to lead to the formation of crystals with multiple…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-11 Davide Pini

Using density functional theory, we investigate fluctuations of the ground state energy of spin-polarized, disordered quantum dots in the metallic regime. To compare to experiment, we evaluate the distribution of addition energies and find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirose , F. Zhou , N. Wingreen

A density functional theory (DFT) of lattice fermion models is presented, which uses the single-particle density matrix gamma_{ij} as basic variable. A simple, explicit approximation to the interaction-energy functional W[gamma] of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Lopez-Sandoval , G. M. Pastor

The term active nematics designates systems in which apolar elongated particles spend energy to move randomly along their axis and interact by inelastic collisions in the presence of noise. Starting from a simple Vicsek-style model for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Eric Bertin , Hugues Chaté , Francesco Ginelli , Shradha Mishra , Anton Peshkov , Sriram Ramaswamy

Previously, it has been shown that the direct correlation function for a Lennard-Jones fluid could be modeled by a sum of that for hard-spheres, a mean-field tail and a simple linear correction in the core region constructed so as to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-20 James F. Lutsko

Common density-matrix functionals, the M\"uller and the power functional, have been benchmarked for the half-filled Hubbard dimer, which allows to model the bond dissociation problem and the transition from the weakly to the strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Ebad Kamil , Robert Schade , Thomas Pruschke , Peter E. Blöchl

The principles of density-functional theory are studied for finite lattice systems represented by graphs. Surprisingly, the fundamental Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is found void in general, while many insights into the topological structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Markus Penz , Robert van Leeuwen

Transport measurements on two dimensional electron systems in moderate magnetic fields suggest the existence of a spontaneously orientationally-ordered, compressible liquid state. We develop and analyze a microscopic theory of such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Leo Radzihovsky , Alan T. Dorsey

Density functional theory for a simple model of dendrimers is proposed. The theory is based on fundamental measure theory which accounts for the hard-sphere repulsion of the segments and on the Wertheim first-order perturbation theory for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-12 Alexandr Malijevsky

We apply a recently proposed density functional for mixtures of parallel hard cylinders, based on Rosenfeld's fundamental measure theory, to study the effect of length-polydispersity on the relative stability between the smectic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Yuri Martinez-Raton , Jose A. Cuesta

Time-dependent density functional theory, proposed recently in the context of atomic diffusion and non-equilibrium processes in solids, is tested against Monte Carlo simulation. In order to assess the basic approximation of that theory, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Kessler , W. Dieterich , H. L. Frisch , J. F. Gouyet , P. Maass