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[[Image:LTHS.png|Example of the tangent linear hard sphere chain model, with m=6.|thumb|right]] | [[Image:LTHS.png|Example of the tangent linear hard sphere chain model, with m=6.|thumb|right]] | ||
This model consists of, as the name suggests, chains of varying monomer length (<math>m</math>), placed tangentially | |||
in a linear configuration. Each monomer is a [[hard sphere model]] and each ''molecule'' is rigid. | |||
For <math>m=5</math> [[smectic-A phase]] beomes stable. For <math>m=6</math> the [[nematic phase]] becomes stable. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1389095 Carlos Vega, Carl McBride, and Luis G. MacDowell "Liquid crystal phase formation for the linear tangent hard sphere model from Monte Carlo simulations", Journal of Chemical Physics '''115''' pp. 4203-4211 (2001)] | #[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1389095 Carlos Vega, Carl McBride, and Luis G. MacDowell "Liquid crystal phase formation for the linear tangent hard sphere model from Monte Carlo simulations", Journal of Chemical Physics '''115''' pp. 4203-4211 (2001)] | ||
[[category:models]] | [[category:models]] | ||
Revision as of 10:36, 29 May 2007
This model consists of, as the name suggests, chains of varying monomer length (), placed tangentially in a linear configuration. Each monomer is a hard sphere model and each molecule is rigid. For smectic-A phase beomes stable. For the nematic phase becomes stable.
