title: Predicting the phases of a two-dimensional hard-rod system with real-space self-consistent field theory.
abstract: Polymer self-consistent field theory numerical tools are applied to a two-dimensional hard-rod colloidal system. Rods are represented through an interaction site model density functional theory that is derived and expressed from a self-consistent field theory perspective. A weighted density approximation is used within the density functional theory, and the phase space is sampled without bias for any particular morphology. A completely ordered crystal phase is found as well as a liquid crystal state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
authors.forename: Russell B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Thompson