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  • Title: Characteristic behavior of short-term dynamics in reorientation for Gay-Berne particles near the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature.
    Author: Satoh K.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2006 Nov 28; 125(20):204902. PubMed ID: 17144735.
    Abstract:
    A specific transition behavior was found in the tumbling motion near the nematic-isotropic phase boundary using molecular dynamics simulations of the Gay-Berne mesogenic model under isobaric conditions at a reduced pressure P* of 2.0. The relaxation time for the motion obtained from the second-rank orientational time correlation function and the rotational diffusion coefficient showed a clear jump at the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature. Regardless of the temperature dependence of the relaxation time, the change in the rotational diffusion coefficient evaluated from the orientational order parameters and the relaxation time agreed qualitatively with that of real mesogens. The rotational viscosity coefficients gamma(1) and gamma(2) were obtained from the simulation data for the relaxation time for the short-term dynamics and for the rotational diffusion coefficients. gamma(1) was proportional to <P2>(2), where <P2> is the second-rank orientational parameter. Furthermore, the rotational behavior of the model was compared with that of the Debye approximation in the isotropic phase.
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