Fluctuation forces and the Devil’s staircase of ferroelectric smectic C*’s
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We show that there exists a novel long range interaction in ferroelectric Sm-C* materials due to thermally excited polarization waves. We propose that this interaction is the long range repulsion whose existence had been postulated earlier to explain the long period ferrielectric phase~ observed near the ferroelectric to antiferroelectric phase transition.
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