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A possibility of the first-order transition, as well as reentrant transitions, induced by an external magnetic field between the homeotropic phase and the hybrid homeotropically planar phase in a ferronematic liquid crystal (ferronematic) with bistable anchoring at the layer boundary is demonstrated in the framework of a continuum theory. The critical values of the material parameters of the ferronematic, the anchoring energy, the thickness of the layer, and the magnetic field strength, for which this transition is possible, are determined. The cases of positive and negative diamagnetic anisotropy of the ferronematic are considered.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Zakhlevnykh, O.R. Semenova, 2012, published in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 1–9.
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Zakhlevnykh, A.N., Semenova, O.R. Orientational transitions in a ferronematic layer with bistable anchoring at the boundary. Tech. Phys. 57, 157–166 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063784212020284
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