Orientational order in simple dipolar liquids: Computer simulation of a ferroelectric nematic phase

30 March 1992

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 68 (13) , 2043-2045
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.2043

Abstract

Molecular-dynamics simulations are used to show that strongly interacting dipolar spheres can form a ferroelectric nematic phase. This is the first demonstration that dipolar forces alone can create an orientationally ordered liquid state. It is also the first time that the existence of a ferroelectric nematic phase has been established for a model fluid.

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