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Using Landau theory of phase transitions, behaviour of antiferroelectric liquid crystal and first order transition to the nonpolar SmA phase were studied in electric field. Influence of frustrating interaction on structure above the temperature of the transition into a nonpolar phase was investigated. We have calculated an electric field - temperature phase diagram, including structures with spatial variation of both the phase and the modulus of the order parameter.
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