Director configurations in nematic Liquid Crystals can be determined by minimizing their
elastic free-energy density, on the basis of elastic constants and of specific boundary …

Director configurations in a nematic liquid crystal can be determined by minimizing its total
elastic free energy, for given elastic constants and specific boundary conditions. In some …

Recent claims that bent core molecules can exhibit the elusive biaxial nematic phase reveal
a molecular structure that differs significantly from the geometry predicted by theory. One …

The Lebwohl-Lasher model of a nematogen provides a simple system with which to study
the order-disorder transition and to examine the properties of the nematic phase. We have …

Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the equilibrium shapes of unconstrained nematic
liquid crystal droplets or tactoids in an isotropic medium. The tactoids are approximately …

The phase behavior of a mesogenic lattice-gas model consisting of molecules located at the
sites of a three-dimensional cubic lattice has been studied using grand canonical Monte …

By now, nematogenic lattice models have been extensively studied in the literature; they
usually involve cylindrically symmetric (uniaxial) particles and isotropic interaction potentials …

The present work reports Monte Carlo calculations on a classical square lattice, consisting of
purely dipolar plane rotators with identical dipole moments. Dipolar interactions are known …

We consider a nematogenic lattice model, associated with a 2-dimensional lattice; the
nearest-neighbour interaction potential, proposed by Gruhn and Hess [Z. Naturforsch. A 51 …

The first real test of the molecular field approximation employed in the Maier—Saupe theory
of nematic liquid crystals was provided by the Lebwohl—Lasher Monte-Carlo simulation of …