The term »soft substance« refers to substances such as colloids, liquid crystals, surfactants, polymers, etc. The properties of some of these systems can be modelled using the Gaussian potential. In this work, we will present the results obtained according to the Gaussian-core model (GCM). For this purpose, we performed extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the canonical (isochoric-isothermal) – NVT and isothermal-isobaric – NpT ensemble and made an analysis of thermodynamic and structural properties for each ensemble.
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