We study the action of a strong electric field on a nematic, topologically stabilized with director n perpendicular to E. Above a threshold field the nematic order on the cell midplane is "melted" and rapidly reconstructed with n axially E. In a Landau-de Gennes model, we show that the observed transient "melted" state is a biaxial nematic and not an isotropic liquid.
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