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Effect of a magnetic field on a liquid crystal film and study of the frederiks transition using molecular dynamics

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We discuss the results of a molecular-dynamics study of the lattice model of a liquid crystal.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 387–394, March, 1987.

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Bagmet, A.D., Tsykalo, A.L. Effect of a magnetic field on a liquid crystal film and study of the frederiks transition using molecular dynamics. Journal of Engineering Physics 52, 279–285 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872506

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