Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the Tayler instability
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2012-07-17 v2 Biological Physics
Abstract
The chiral symmetry breaking properties of the Tayler instability are discussed. Effective amplitude equations are determined in one case. This model has three free parameters that are determined numerically. Comparison with chiral symmetry breaking in biochemistry is made.
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@article{arxiv.1111.1742,
title = {Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the Tayler instability},
author = {Fabio Del Sordo and Alfio Bonanno and Axel Brandenburg and Dhrubaditya Mitra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1742},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symp 286, Comparative Magnetic Minima, C. H. Mandrini, eds