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We report here on the optical birefringence of thiourea in the incommensurate phase. The resolution got by this method gives interesting informations on the incommensurate disordered transition and, in particular, a primary order parameter exponent 3 = 0.38 ± 0.01 and on the hysteresis occurring in this phase. In addition it shows clearly the existence of the locked phase and of an associated hysteresis. But it does not show any evidence for the existence of the so-called phase III which appears in the dielectric susceptibility measurements nor of the devil staircase predicted by discret theory of incommensurate phase transitions [1] in spite of the extreme sensitivity of the experiment.
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Jamet, J.P., Quittet, A.M., Moudden, A.H. (1981). Optical Birefringence in Deuterated Thiourea CS(ND2)2 in the Incommensurate Phase. In: Devreese, J.T., Lemmens, L.F., Van Doren, V.E., Van Royen, J. (eds) Recent Developments in Condensed Matter Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1086-0_8
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