Abstract
We show through explicit molecular modeling how tilt may be induced in layered mesophases and propagate across the layers, using a concrete representation of flexible tail-core-tail calamitic mesogens in conjunction with the variational cluster expansion. The results demonstrate that spontaneous symmetry breaking observed in smectic liquid crystals---the tilt of the director relative to the layers---can be induced by excluded volume interactions, both in the synclinic and in the anticlinic configurations.
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