Abstract
The first observation is reported of an anomalous attenuation and velocity dispersion near a smectic-$A$---smectic-$C$ phase transition in a liquid crystal. The anomaly is found to be strongly anisotropic and dominated by the Landau-Khalatnikov relaxation of the order parameter in contrast with other liquid-crystalline phase transitions.
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