Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid

arXiv:2602.15687 · cond-mat.soft · Submitted 2026-02-17 · Read on arXiv

cond-mat.soft

Submitted: 2026-02-17

Updated: 2026-10-23

Terminology

• Chiral Symmetry — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Phase Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Polarization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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