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The Smectic-A (SmA) phase is modeled by a modified Landau-de Gennes (mLdG) model proposed by Xia et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., 126 (2021), 177801], in which a tensor order parameter $\mathbf{Q}$ for the orientational order is coupled with a…

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