In X ray studies of smectic liquid crystal filmes exhibiting the hexatic smectic B (HexB)phase, it has been found that 6-fold and 6n-fold bond orientational order (BOO) paremeters satisfy a scaling relation; log(C6n) = s log(C6).
We have studied 6-fold, 12-fold, 18-fold BOO parameters in crystalB
and HexB phases in systems of parallel soft spherocylinders by molecular dynamics simultaions.
