Abstract
Abstract In a discrete phenomenological description of tilted smectic phases, the order parameter, which describes the magnitude and the direction of the tilt of the molecules, is defined for each smectic layer. The free energy expansion in terms of order parameter takes into account interactions between nearest and next nearest smectic layers, and allows for competing interactions. By minimizing the free energy of the system the structure of the frustrated Sm C*α phase is obtained.
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