{"id":3076,"date":"2018-02-15T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:28:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:28:26","slug":"spatially-varying-liquid-crystal-order-theory-and-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/spatially-varying-liquid-crystal-order-theory-and-simulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatially Varying Liquid Crystal Order: Theory and Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Spatially Varying Liquid Crystal Order: Theory and Simulations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Gavin-Rae Barnaby with Rolfe Petschek<\/p>\n<p>Hard Tetrahedra and shapes close to hard tetrahedra pack well when they are oriented in ways different from their neighbors.\u00a0 The Petschek group has hypothesized that long-range periodic orientation or liquid crystal order explains the complicated crystalline structures that form in computer simulations of such particles.\u00a0 This project will continue this work.\u00a0 An existing program for analyzing such order will be sped up and used to analyze old data.\u00a0 An existing simulation program will be run with slightly different parameters in order to obtain better data, and to test if other crystalline structures are better than ones that are currently known, either for hard tetrahedra or for similar shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Spatially Varying Liquid Crystal Order: Theory and Simulations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Gavin-Rae Barnaby with Rolfe Petschek<\/p>\n<p>Hard Tetrahedra and shapes close to hard tetrahedra pack well when they are oriented in ways different from their neighbors.\u00a0 The Petschek group has hypothesized that long-range periodic orientation or liquid crystal order explains the complicated crystalline structures that form in computer simulations of such particles.\u00a0 This project will continue this work.\u00a0 An existing program for analyzing such order will be sped up and used to analyze old data.\u00a0 An existing simulation program will be run with slightly different parameters in order to obtain better data,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/spatially-varying-liquid-crystal-order-theory-and-simulations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spatially Varying Liquid Crystal Order: Theory and Simulations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[92,1,40,5,11,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}