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The Gay-Berne model (Ref. 1) is used extensively in simulations of liquid crystalline systems. The Gay-Berne model
is an anistropic form of the Lennard-Jones 12:6 potential.
where, in the limit of one of the particles being spherical, gives:
and
with
and
Phase diagram
- Main article: Phase diagram of the Gay-Berne model
References
- J. G. Gay and B. J. Berne "Modification of the overlap potential to mimic a linear site–site potential", Journal of Chemical Physics 74 pp. 3316-3319 (1981)
- Douglas J. Cleaver, Christopher M. Care, Michael P. Allen, and Maureen P. Neal "Extension and generalization of the Gay-Berne potential" Physical Review E 54 pp. 559 - 567 (1996)