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dc.contributor.authorVIJ, JAGDISHen
dc.contributor.authorFUKUDA, ATSUOen
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-17T10:52:51Z
dc.date.available2014-02-17T10:52:51Z
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.date.submitted2013en
dc.identifier.citationSandhya, K.L., Chandani, A.D.L., Fukuda, A., Vij, J.K., Emelyanenko, A.V., Ishikawa, K., Degeneracy lifting due to thermal fluctuations around the frustration point between anticlinic antiferroelectric SmCA* and synclinic ferroelectric SmC*, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 87, 1, 2013, 012502-en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/68071
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dc.description.abstractIn the binary mixture phase diagram of MC881 and MC452, the borderline between anticlinic antiferroelectric SmC?A and synclinic ferroelectric SmC? becomes apparently parallel to the temperature ordinate axis at the critical concentration rc. The free energy difference between SmC?A and SmC? is extremely small in a wide temperature range near rc. In such circumstances, by observing Bragg reflection spectra due to the director helical structure and electric-field-induced birefringence, we have observed the continuous change from SmC?A to SmC? for r?rc and the gradual growth of the full-pitch band over 5 ?C or more in the apparent SmC? temperature region for r?rc. These intriguing phenomena have been explained, successfully at least in the high-temperature region, by a thermal equilibrium between the synclinic and anticlinic orderings and the resulting Boltzmann distribution for the ratio between them; the thermal equilibrium is considered to be attained in a nonuniform defect-assisted way through solitary waves moving around dynamically. We have also discussed qualitatively an important role played by the effective long-range interlayer interactions in the low-temperature region.en
dc.description.sponsorshipMitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc., is acknowledged for the gift of liquid crystal compounds, and the Irish Research Council of Science, Engineering and Technology is thanked for support to K. L. Sandhya as a post-doctoral fellow. The lab- oratory facilities were equipped with a grant from the Science Foundation of Ireland. Visit of K.L.S. to Dublin was facilitated through Ireland-India cooperation funding; J.K.V. thanks the Dean of FEMS, Trinity College Dublin for financial support. K. Ishikawa gratefully acknowledges financial support of Grants-in Aid for Science Research (B) (23310072) and Bilateral Joint Projects/Seminars by JSPSen
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries87en
dc.relation.ispartofseries1en
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dc.subjectPhysicsen
dc.titleDegeneracy lifting due to thermal fluctuations around the frustration point between anticlinic antiferroelectric SmCA* and synclinic ferroelectric SmC*en
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorIrish Research Council for Science and Engineering Technology (IRCSET)en
dc.type.supercollectionscholarly_publicationsen
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publicationsen
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttp://people.tcd.ie/jvijen
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttp://people.tcd.ie/atsuofen
dc.identifier.rssinternalid91619en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.012502en
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