https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/634697
標題: | Entropy of different phases formed by soft rods | 作者: | Chattopadhyay, Jayeeta SHIANG-TAI LIN Maiti, Prabal K. |
關鍵字: | Physics - Soft Condensed Matter; Physics - Soft Condensed Matter; Physics - Statistical Mechanics | 公開日期: | 7-八月-2023 | 卷: | 159 | 期: | 5 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Chemical Physics | 摘要: | The computation of entropy in liquids and liquid crystal (LC) phases is a big challenge in statistical physics. In this work, we extend the two-phase thermodynamic model (2PT) to shape anisotropic soft repulsive spherocylinders (SRSs) and report the absolute values of entropy for different LC phases for a range of aspect ratios L/D = 2 − 5. We calculate the density of states for different LC phases and decompose it into contributions arising from translational and rotational degrees of freedom. The translational and rotational modes are further partitioned into diffusive, gas-like, and non-diffusive, solid-like components using a fluidicity factor. In the dilute limit, the entropy values obtained from the 2PT method match exactly those of an ideal rigid rotor. We find that, for a given packing fraction, the magnitude of the total entropy is roughly equal regardless of the different LC phases associated with different aspect ratios. We also compute the excess entropy (for L/D = 5) and compare those with the values obtained using the standard integration approach of MD or Monte Carlo equation of state of SRS. The values obtained using both approaches match very well. The rotational and translational fluidicity factors are further used to determine the phase boundaries of different LC phases. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/634697 | ISSN: | 00219606 | DOI: | 10.1063/5.0163349 |
顯示於: | 化學工程學系 |
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