It is shown that optical biaxiality can be induced in a nematic liquid crystal of negative dielectric anisotropy by an electric field applied normal to the director axis. The origin of the biaxiality is attributed to differential quenching of fluctuations. Results are presented for two materials, and are in qualitative agreement with the predictions of continuum theory.
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