Onsager's missing steps retraced. (7th November 2017)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Onsager's missing steps retraced. (7th November 2017)
- Main Title:
- Onsager's missing steps retraced
- Authors:
- Palffy-Muhoray, Peter
Virga, Epifanio G
Zheng, Xiaoyu - Abstract:
- Abstract: Onsager's paper on phase transition and phase coexistence in anisotropic colloidal systems is a landmark in the theory of lyotropic liquid crystals. However, an uncompromising scrutiny of Onsager's original derivation reveals that it would be rigorously valid only for ludicrous values of the system's number density (of the order of the reciprocal of the number of particles). Based on Penrose's tree identity and an appropriate variant of the mean-field approach for purely repulsive, hard-core interactions, our theory shows that Onsager's theory is indeed valid for a reasonable range of densities.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of physics. Volume 29:Number 47(2017)
- Journal:
- Journal of physics
- Issue:
- Volume 29:Number 47(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 29, Issue 47 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 47
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0029-0047-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2017-11-07
- Subjects:
- Onsager theory -- Penrose's tree identity -- mean-field theory
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http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/ ↗
http://ioppublishing.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1088/1361-648X/aa942b ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0953-8984
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