Ramaswamy, Sriram ; Toner, John (1984) Smectics A and C are always glasses Physical Review Letters, 53 (5). pp. 477-480. ISSN 0031-9007
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Official URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.477
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Abstract
Smectics A and C, tilted discotics, and the smectic-C˜ phase are shown to have finite shear moduli for shears applied in directions which have no translational order (liquid directions): This is the signature of a glass. This modulus is generated purely by dynamical fluctuation effects. It leads in smectics A and C to a violation of the basic rule of conventional hydrodynamics which asserts the equality of the numbers of hydrodynamic modes and fields.
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