Isotropic-nematic interfacial tension of hard and soft rods: application of advanced grand canonical biased sampling techniques

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dc.creatorVink, R. L. C.
dc.creatorWolfsheimer, S.
dc.creatorSchilling, T.
dc.date2005-06-15
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dc.descriptionCoexistence between the isotropic and the nematic phase in suspensions of rods is studied using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations with a bias on the nematic order parameter. The biasing scheme makes it possible to estimate the interfacial tension gamma in systems of hard and soft rods. For hard rods with L/D=15, we obtain gamma ~ 1.4 kB T/L^2, with L the rod length, D the rod diameter, T the temperature, and kB the Boltzmann constant. This estimate is in good agreement with theoretical predictions, and the order of magnitude is consistent with experiments.
dc.description10 pages, 10 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506370
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506370
dc.identifierJ. Chem. Phys. 123, 074901 (2005)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2000237
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/95397
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.titleIsotropic-nematic interfacial tension of hard and soft rods: application of advanced grand canonical biased sampling techniques
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