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We study the free boundary problem for a plasma-vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement when the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, to better…

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We study the final equilibrium states of the Parker instability arising from an initially unstable cylindrical equilibrium configuration of gas in the presence of a radial gravitational field and a longitudinal magnetic field. The aim of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-11-30 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , A. Santillan

We develop an effective field theory approach to inspect the electromagnetic interactions in an electrically neutral plasma, with an equal number of negative and positive charge carriers. We argue that the static equilibrium configurations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ludvig Faddeev , Antti J. Niemi

Physical experiments and numerical simulations have revealed a remarkable stabilizing phenomenon: a background magnetic field stabilizes and dampens electrically conducting fluids. This paper provides a rigorous mathematical justification…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Qunyi Bie , Hui Fang , Yanping Zhou

We consider a free boundary problem for the axially symmetric incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations that describes the motion of the plasma in vacuum. Both the plasma magnetic field and vacuum magnetic field are tangent along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-07 Xumin Gu

We study the linear properties, nonlinear saturation and a steady, strongly nonlinear state of the Parker instability in galaxies. We consider magnetic buoyancy and its consequences with and without cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are described…

Two thin conducting, electrically neutral, parallel plates forming an isolated system in vacuum exert attracting force on each other, whose origin is the quantum electrodynamical interaction. This theoretical hypothesis, known as Casimir…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Herdegen

This work presents a general and unified theory describing block copolymer self-assembly in the presence of free surfaces and nanoparticles in the context of Self-Consistent Filed Theory. Specifically, the derived theory applies to free and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-17 Daniil Bochkov , Ivana Bagaric , Gaddiel Ouaknin , Frederic Gibou

We construct some extension ({\it Stable Field Theory}) of Cohomological Field Theory. The Stable Field Theory is a system of homomorphisms to some vector spaces generated by spheres and disks with punctures. It is described by a formal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Natanzon

A topological constraint on the dynamics of a magnetic field in a flux tube arises from the fixed point indices of its field line mapping. This can explain unexpected behaviour in recent resistive-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. R. Yeates , G. Hornig

Aspects of parity-preserving, three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a global $U(1)$ symmetry in the presence of a background magnetic field are investigated. A local effective action is constructed to four-derivative order,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Christopher P. Herzog , William H. Pannell , Biswajit Sahoo , Andreas Stergiou

We develop the quantum theory of the causal formation of a long-range magnetic field generated by an external current that is instantaneously switched on and subsequently kept constant in time. The resulting non-equilibrium quantum state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Bogdan Damski

Based on the exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation the self-consistent two-fluid model of the pulsar magnetosphere is developed. We concentrate on the low-mass limit of the model, taking into account the radiation damping. As a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 S. A. Petrova

The possibility of the existence of quasi-stationary electromagnetic fields in plasma supported by their own self-consistent current follows from Maxwell's equations with field sources. These equations also give rise to a wave equation for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Yurii A. Spirichev

In null electromagnetic fields the electric and the magnetic field lines evolve like unbreakable elastic filaments in a fluid flow. In particular, their topology is preserved for all time. We prove that for every link $L$ there is such an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Benjamin Bode

The basic continuum model for polar fluids is deceptively simple. The free energy integral consists of four terms: The coupling of polarization to an external field, the electrostatic energy of the induced electric field interacting with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-22 Michiel Sprik

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a universal lower bound on the product of entropy production and the fluctuations of any current. While proven for Markov dynamics on a discrete set of states and for overdamped Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Hyun-Myung Chun , Lukas P. Fischer , Udo Seifert

We propose a phenomenological theory of strong incompressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the presence of a strong large-scale external magnetic field. We argue that in the inertial range of scales, magnetic-field and velocity-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislav Boldyrev

Force-free electrodynamics (FFE) is a closed set of equations for the electromagnetic field of a magnetically dominated plasma. There are strong arguments for the existence of force-free plasmas near pulsars and active black holes, but FFE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Samuel E. Gralla , Nabil Iqbal

An oblique pulsar magnetosphere with a plasma conductivity is studied by using a pseudo-spectral method. In the pseudo-spectral method, the time-dependent Maxwell equations are solved, both electric and magnetic fields are expanded in terms…

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