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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Hydrodynamics of the Renn-Lubensky twist grain boundary phase, and the decoupled lamellar phase
Abstract
The long-wavelength hydrodynamics of the Renn-Lubensky twist grain boundary phase with grain boundary angle 2, irrational, is studied. We find three propagating sound modes, with two of the three sound speeds vanishing for propagation orthogonal to the grains, and one vanishing for propagation parallel to the grains as well. In addition, we find that the viscosities 1, 2, 4, and 5 diverge like 1/ as frequency 0, with the divergent parts i satisfying 14=(5)2, exactly. Our results should also apply to the predicted decoupled lamellar phase. © 1993 The American Physical Society.