smecticity

English

Etymology

smectic +‎ -ity

Noun

smecticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being smectic.
   • 2015, Cheung Chan, “Interplay of pair density waves and random field disorders in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     This state could capture a number of important experimental features in the pseudogap, for example, the predominant d-wave CDW with spatial dependent charge smecticity, the unusual ARPES quasiparticle spectrum, and the time reversal symmetry breaking order in polarized neutron diffraction and polar Kerr rotation.