Golubović, Leonardo and Wang, Zhen-Gang (1992) Anharmonic elasticity of smectics A and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang model. Physical Review Letters, 69 (17). pp. 2535-2538. ISSN 0031-9007 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:GOLprl92
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Abstract
We relate anharmonic equilibrium thermal fluctuations of smectics A to fluctuations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) dynamical model for a growing interface. The KPZ model in 1+1 dimensions is one to one related to a 2D smectic elastic model whose scaling behavior is then obtained exactly. The KPZ model in 2+1 dimensions maps into an elastic critical point of 3D smectics A with broken inversion symmetry (head-to-tail packing of layers). We discuss the elasticity and fluctuations of these novel smectic-A phases.
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| Additional Information: | ©1992 The American Physical Society. Received 7 August 1992. We thank Tom Lubensky and Robijn Bruinsma for useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Note added. -- After this work was done, a related work, Ref. [21], was brought to our attention. |
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