An earlier Monte-Carlo simulation of a cholesteric configuration of molecules is generalised in the present work allowing for full rotational degrees of freedom. The effect of temperature on pitch has been studied and the results are compared with the results obtained from mean field and plane rotator model simulation studies.

JAYASHREE SAHA

Physics

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A lattice model Monte Carlo simulation of cholesteric liquid crystal with freely rotating molecules

Molecular Simulation

Starting from a simple pair interaction potential between chiral molecules, a cholesteric configuration of molecules is generated in a 15 x 15 x 15 system. The effect of temperature on the cholesteric structures is also studied. Unlike the results under the mean field approximation with the same pair potential, the present Monte-Carlo simulation shows a temperature dependence of the pitch.

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF THE CHOLESTERIC PHASE IN LIQUID-CRYSTALS

J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans.

Computer simulation studies of anisotropic systems. Part 25.—Chiral nematics, the Dzyaloshinsky–Moriya model

Liquid Crystals

Computer simulation of chiral liquid crystal phases. I. The polymorphism of the chiral Gay-Berne fluid

Molecular Physics

Computer simulation of a twisted nematic liquid crystal

The Journal of Chemical Physics

Modification of the overlap potential to mimic a linear site–site potential

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