Molecular dynamics calculation of elastic constants in Gay–Berne nematic liquid crystals

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Abstract

In this paper we present a molecular dynamics calculation of the Frank elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal. We study two well-known variants of the Gay–Berne potential, and determine the elastic constants by measuring orientational fluctuations as a function of wave vector, using reasonably large system sizes in the range 1000–8000 molecules. For some of the simulations, a set of Lagrangian constraints was applied in order to keep the director fixed along one of the box axes, facilitating the measurement of fluctuations in components of the reciprocal-space order tensor Q̂(k) in the director frame.

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