ORIENTATIONAL ORDER IN SIMPLE DIPOLAR FLUIDS - DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND ABSOLUTE-STABILITY CONDITIONS

被引:71
作者
WEI, DQ [1 ]
PATEY, GN [1 ]
PERERA, A [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV PARIS 06,PHYS THEOR LIQUIDES LAB,F-75252 PARIS 05,FRANCE
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1993年 / 47卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevE.47.506
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
The formation of ferroelectric liquid crystals by simple dipolar models is investigated using density-functional theory and absolute-stability analysis. It is emphasized that for such systems well defined results can only be found by specifying exactly how the long-range dipolar interactions are treated. Explicit formal expressions are derived for mean-reaction-field boundary conditions and these are combined with integral-equation approximations in order to obtain numerical results for fluids of dipolar hard and soft spheres. The calculations predict isotropic-to-ferroelectric-nematic transitions in qualitative agreement with computer simulations. The quantitative agreement, however, is rather poor.
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页码:506 / 512
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