Nematic–smectic-Atransition for perfectly aligned hard spherocylinders: Application of the smoothed-density approximation
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- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 39 (5) , 2742-2744
Abstract
We apply the smoothed-density approximation to study the nematic–smectic-A transition for the system of perfectly aligned hard spherocylinders. We find that the transition occurs for all length-to-width ratios L/D of a spherocylinder and is always continuous. The bifurcation analysis is applied to locate the transition. Our results are in reasonable agreement with those obtained in computer simulations.Keywords
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