Host: The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
Name : 2019 Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 04, 2019 - September 06, 2019
Reentrant liquid crystals are low ordered phases, which reappear at lower temperatures than that of higher ordered phases. We investigate the possibility of reentrant liquid crystals appearing when the volume is kept constant, even when the chemical interaction among the molecules are the same. The method of canonical hydrostatic molecular dynamics simulation is used for this purpose. Canonical hydrostatic simulation results are compared with simulation results of isobaric-isothermal ensemble. Reentrant smectic A and hexatic smectic phases appear in several model systems.
