x S 0 0 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 6 0 . 8 1 0 . 1 0 . 2 0 . 3 0 . 4 0 . 5 0 . 6 0 . 7 0 . 8 0 . 9 1 0 S$_{2}$ S$_{1}$ $^{S}$tot (a) λ = 2 x S 0 0 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 6 0 . 8 1 0 0 . 1 0 . 2 0 . 3 0 . 4 0 . 5 0 . 6 0 . 7 0 . 8 0 . 9 1 (b) λ = 2 . 5 x S 0 0 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 6 0 . 8 1 0 0 . 1 0 . 2 0 . 3 0 . 4 0 . 5 0 . 6 0 . 7 0 . 8 0 . 9 1 (d) λ = 5 S 0 0 . 2 0 . 4 0 . 6 0 . 8 1 0 0 . 1 0 . 2 0 . 3 0 . 4 0 . 5 0 . 6 0 . 7 0 . 8 0 . 9 1 (c) λ = 4 FIG. 8: The nematic order parameters along the nematic binodal for λ = 2 , 2 . 5 , 4 and 5 using FMT. The dotted curves indicate S$_{1}$ , the dashed curves indicate S$_{2}$ and the solid curves indicate S$_{tot}$ . 38