Long-range order in a lattice-gas model of nematic liquid crystals

✍ Scribed by V.A. Zagrebnov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 460 KB
• Volume: 232
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00181-1

✦ Synopsis

A lattice model with full rotational symmetry is discussed for describing nematic liquid crystals. It is a lattice-gas approximation of continuum liquid with dispersion forces between long centrosymmetric molecules. Orientational long-range order at low temperatures and large chemical potentials is proven using the combination of an infrared bound and chessboard estimates.