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Entropy and Correlations in a Fluid of Hard Spherocylinders: The Onset of Nematic and Smectic Order
Hard spherocylinders (cylinders of length L and diameter D capped at both ends with two hemispheres) provide a suitable model for investigating entropy-driven mesophase formations in real colloidal fluids that are composed of rigid rodlike molecules. We performed extensive Monte Carlo simulations of this model fluid for elongations in the …