Excess free energy due to hard-core repulsions for the cholesteric and smectic phases

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Abstract
It is shown that the excess free energy due to hard-core repulsions in terms of the geometrical asymmetry of chiral molecules is negligibly small and that the corresponding contribution in terms of the shape anisotropy of rodlike molecules stabilizes the smectic-A phase with respect to the smectic-C phase.