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Computer Simulations and Defects in Confined Liquid Crystal Lattice Models

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Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments

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Monte Carlo simulations of spin models for some confined liquid crystal systems and their defects are described. In particular, simulations of polymer dispersed nematic droplets and nematic films with different boundary conditions are treated.

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    C. Chiccoli & P. Pasini

  2. Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica e Inorganica, Universitá di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 4, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    I. Feruli & C. Zannoni

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  1. Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Oleg D. Lavrentovich

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Pasini

  3. Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Inorganica, Universita di Bologna, Italy

    Claudio Zannoni

  4. Physics Department, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Slobodan Žumer

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Chiccoli, C., Pasini, P., Feruli, I., Zannoni, C. (2001). Computer Simulations and Defects in Confined Liquid Crystal Lattice Models. In: Lavrentovich, O.D., Pasini, P., Zannoni, C., Žumer, S. (eds) Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments. NATO Science Series, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0512-8_4

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