Editing 3-dimensional hard rods

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==Minimum distance==
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0097-8485(94)80023-5   Carlos Vega and Santiago Lago "A fast algorithm to evaluate the shortest distance between rods", Computers & Chemistry  '''18''' pp. 55-59 (1994)]
==Density-functional theory==
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.41.6871      A. Poniewierski and R. Holyst "Density-functional theory for systems of hard rods", Physical Review A '''41''' pp. 6871-6880 (1990)]
==Infinitely long hard rods==
*[[Onsager theory]]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1949.tb27296.x Lars Onsager "The effects of shape on the interaction of colloidal particles", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences '''51'''  pp. 627-659 (1949)]
==Isotropic-nematic transition==
Hard rods of sufficient length are able to display [[liquid crystals | liquid crystalline]] behaviour, specifically, an [[Isotropic-nematic phase transition |isotropic to nematic transition]], as well as the [[smectic phases |smectic phase]].
#Ping Sheng "Hard rod model of the nematic-isotropic phase transition", RCA Review '''35''' pp. 132-143 (1974)
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.19.1225  J. D. Parsons "Nematic ordering in a system of rods"  Physical Review A '''19''' 1225-1230 (1979)]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1599277 H. H. Wensink and G. J. Vroege "Isotropic–nematic phase behavior of length-polydisperse hard rods", Journal of Chemical Physics '''119''' 6868 (2003)]
#[http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/332822a0 D. Frenkel,  H. N. W. Lekkerkerker and A. Stroobants "Thermodynamic stability of a smectic phase in a system of hard rods", Nature '''332''' pp. 822-823 (1988)]
==Related models==
*[[1-dimensional hard rods]]
==References==
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