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Magnetic fields have been observed in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and probably in superclusters. While mechanisms exist to generate these in the late universe, it is possible that magnetic fields have existed since very early times. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-07 Iain A. Brown

Despite the success of Maxwell's electromagnetism in the description of the electromagnetic interactions on small scales, we know very little about the behaviour of electromagnetic fields on cosmological distances. Thus, it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

We argue that dark energy with multiple fields is theoretically well-motivated and predicts distinct observational signatures, in particular when cosmic acceleration takes place along a trajectory that is highly non-geodesic in field space.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Yashar Akrami , Misao Sasaki , Adam R. Solomon , Valeri Vardanyan

The origin of large-scale magnetic field in the universe is one of the greatest mysteries in modern cosmology. We present a new mechanism for generation of large-scale magnetic field, based on the power-counting renormalizable theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Satoshi Maeda , Shinji Mukohyama , Tetsuya Shiromizu

Dark energy is a fundamental constituent of our universe, its status in the cosmological field equation should be equivalent to that of gravity. Here we construct a dark energy and matter gravity coupling (DEMC) model of cosmology in a way…

General Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Ti-Pei Li

In this work we consider the most general electromagnetic theory in curved space-time leading to linear second order differential equations, including non-minimal couplings to the space-time curvature. We assume the presence of a temporal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

Many candidate models for dark energy are based on the existence of a classical scalar field. In the context of Quantum Field Theory (QFT), we briefly discus the condensation of such a field from a light quantum scalar field produced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-19 Houri Ziaeepour

We suggest a new mechanism for generation of large-scale magnetic field in the hot plasma of early universe which is based on the parity violation in weak interactions and depends neither on helicity of matter turbulence resulting in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Semikoz , D. D. Sokoloff

We consider cosmological tests of a scalar-vector-tensor gravitational model, in which the dark energy is included in the total action through a gauge invariant, electromagnetic type contribution. The ground state of dark energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Zoltán Keresztes , László Á. Gergely , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang

The origin of our universe's cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery. In this study, we consider whether these magnetic fields could have been generated in the early universe by a population of charged, spinning primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic

The origin of the observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe is a major problem of modern cosmology and theoretical physics. Simple estimations of the contribution of vacuum to the density energy of the universe in quantum field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-11 Arnaud Dupays , Brahim Lamine , Alain Blanchard

We propose a mechanism to generate large-scale magnetic fields with correlation lengths of 100 kpc. Domain walls with QCD scale internal structure form and coalesce obtaining Hubble scale correlations and align nucleon spins. Due to strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael McNeil Forbes , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Observations of an apparent acceleration in the expansion rate of the universe, derived from measurements of high-redshift supernovae, have been used to support the hypothesis that the universe is permeated by some form of dark energy. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Robin Booth

Magnetic fields are observed on nearly all scales in the universe, from stars and galaxies upto galaxy clusters and even beyond. The origin of cosmic magnetic fields is still an open question, however a large class of models puts its origin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-19 Kerstin E. Kunze

The traditional "explanation" for the observed acceleration of the universe is the existence of a positive cosmological constant. However, this can hardly be a truly convincing explanation, as an expanding universe is not expected to have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Joan Sola

We present a mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields with large correlation lengths on the order of 100 kpc today. The mechanism is based on recently conjectured QCD domain walls or similar CP violating domain walls with QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Standard cosmology poses a number of important questions. Apart from its singular origin, it possesses early and late accelerating phases required to account for observations. The vacuum energy has been considered as a possible way to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 Saulo Carneiro , Reza Tavakol

Recent astrophysical observations indicate that the universe is composed of a large amount of dark energy (DE) responsible for an accelerated expansion of the universe, along with a sizeable amount of cold dark matter (CDM), responsible for…

Magnetic fields appear wherever plasma and currents can be found. As such, they thread through all scales in Nature. It is natural, therefore, to suppose that magnetic fields might have been formed within the high temperature environments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-16 Dai G. Yamazaki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathew , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The accelerated expansion of the universe implies the existence of an energy contribution known as dark energy. Associated with the cosmological constant in the standard model of cosmology, the nature of this dark energy is still unknown.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 Ekim Taylan Hanımeli , Isaac Tutusaus , Brahim Lamine , Alain Blanchard