1A10 Simulations on Alignments of Dipole Moments of Rod-molecules in the Sm Phase

Abstract

Assemblies of hard rod-molecules are known to show successively N and Sm phases, as increase of their concentration. In case each molecule possess an intrinsic electric dipole moment, their moments are to be expected to align in the identical layer, and to appear ferro or antiferro phase in the certain condition. We have investigated by MC simulations on models of hard beads connected spheres with dipole-dipole interactions