Liquid-Crystal Smectic with Six-Layer Periodic Structure

P. V. Dolganov; V. M. Zhilin; V. K. Dolganov; E. I. Kats

Liquid-Crystal Smectic with Six-Layer Periodic Structure

Soft Condensed Matter 2010-04-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Authors: P. V. Dolganov , V. M. Zhilin , V. K. Dolganov , E. I. Kats

Abstract

Recently Wang et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027801 (2010)] discovered a new polar smectic phase with six-layer period (SmC*d6). In this manuscript, we demonstrate that the theory [Phys. Rev. E 67, 041716 (2003)] based on the free energy expansion with a two-component order parameter predicted the six-layer phase, describes its structure and the phase sequence observed in experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 027801 (2010)].

Keywords

crystal structure and quasicrystals crystal growth and phase transitions

Cite

@article{arxiv.1004.0834,
  title  = {Liquid-Crystal Smectic with Six-Layer Periodic Structure},
  author = {P. V. Dolganov and V. M. Zhilin and V. K. Dolganov and E. I. Kats},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0834},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

two pages, one figure

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