Hexatic smectic phase with algebraically decaying bond-orientational order.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.052702
Abstract: The hexatic phase predicted by the theories of two-dimensional melting is characterized by the power-law decay of the orientational correlations, whereas the in-layer bond orientational order in all the hexatic smectic phases observed so far… read more here.
Keywords: phase; bond orientational; hexatic smectic; orientational order ... See more keywords