Abstract
The order-parameter fluctuation spectrum of a chiral system undergoing a helicoidal ferroelectric phase transition is evaluated both above and below . The transition is produced by a condensation of a coupled tilt-polarization soft mode. The "in-phase" amplitude fluctuations in the tilt and the polarization represent the soft mode of the low-temperature phase, whereas "in-phase" orientational fluctuations represent the Goldstone mode which is recovering the continuous symmetry group broken at .
- Received 5 October 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.18.740
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