The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in ferroelectric nematic systems has opened new avenues for exploring exotic textures in liquid crystalline ferromagnets. Authors reveal that the polar smectic phase coexisting with a chiral ferroelectric nematic is itself helical, exhibits pseudo-ferrielectric switching, and shows both first- and second-order helix formation, with pre-transitional helices emerging in the nematic phase.
- Jordan Hobbs
- Calum J. Gibb
- Richard. J. Mandle
