We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …

Biaxial nematic (N b) liquid crystals are a fascinating condensed matter phase that has
baffled, for more than thirty years, scientists engaged in the challenge of demonstrating its …

Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

The phase behaviour of achiral banana-shaped molecules was studied by computer
simulation. The banana-shaped molecules were described by model intermolecular …

A review is presented of molecular and mesoscopic computer simulations of liquid
crystalline systems. Molecular simulation approaches applied to such systems are …

With rapidly expanding interest in liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers among the
liquid crystal community, researchers are currently exploring the wide range of possible …

The simulation of systems of simple particles interacting through a suitable model potential
allows the identification of the essential physical features (anisotropy and biaxiality …

This article reviews some of the recent progress in the simulation of liquid crystals across a
range of length and time scales. Simulators now have an extensive range of models at their …

We report the results of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of 4-n-octyl-4′
cyanobiphenyl (8CB) on samples of 750 and 3000 molecules showing the spontaneous …

Featured Applications optical communications, optical sensors. Abstract Liquid crystals are
interesting linear and nonlinear optical materials used to make a wide variety of devices …