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Competition between mirror symmetry breaking and translation symmetry breaking in ferroelectric liquid crystals with increasing lateral substitution
Grant J. Strachan, Ewa Górecka, Damian Pociecha
The recently discovered heliconical ferroelectric nematic (NTBF) phase is a unique example of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a proper ferroelectric fluid. In this study, w…
cond-mat.soft2025
Interplay of polar order and positional order in liquid crystals -- observation of re-entrant ferroelectric nematic phase
Grant Strachan, Shona Ramsay, Marijus Juodka +6
We show that development of polar order may spontaneously destroy the lamellar structure of a liquid crystal. This results in an unusual sequence of phases with the ferroelectric n…