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We show, using a covariant and gauge-invariant charged multifluid perturbation scheme, that velocity perturbations of the matter-dominated dust Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model can lead to the generation of cosmic magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerold Betschart , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Mattias Marklund

A new analytical solution of the set of highly nonlinear two-fluid equations is presented to explain the mechanism for the generation of "seed" magnetic field and plasma flow by assuming the density n to have a profile like an exponential…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Hamid Saleem

The magnetic field generation by a relativistic laser light irradiated on a thin target at the oblique incidence is investigated using a two dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The surface magnetic field inhibits the electron transport…

Spontaneous magnetic field generation plays important role in laser-plasma interactions. Strong quasi-static magnetic fields affect the thermal conductivity and the plasma dynamics, particularly in the case of ultra intense laser where the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Y-J. Gu , M. Murakami

Interstellar magnetic fields in elliptical galaxies are assumed to have their origin in stellar fields that accompany normal mass loss from an evolving population of old stars. The seed fields are amplified by interstellar turbulence driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

The mechanisms that generate "seed" magnetic fields in our Universe and that amplify them throughout cosmic time remain poorly understood. By means of fully-kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of turbulent, initially unmagnetized plasmas,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 L. Sironi , L. Comisso , R. Golant

We demonstrate that the Biermann battery mechanism for the creation of large scale magnetic fields can arise in a simple model protogalaxy. Analytic calculations and numerical simulations follow explicitly the generation of vorticity (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Davies , Lawrence M. Widrow

The origin of intergalactic magnetic fields is still a mystery and several scenarios have been proposed so far: among them, primordial phase transitions, structure formation shocks and galactic outflows. In this work we investigate how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Serena Bertone , Corina Vogt , Torsten Ensslin

It is demonstrated that targets with a broken rotational symmetry may facilitate generation of a strong axial (poloidal) magnetic field. An intense laser beam irradiating such a target creates intense electron currents carrying vorticity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ph. Korneev , V. Tikhonchuk , E. d'Humières

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent hot plasma of the early Universe accounting for the chiral magnetic effect. The magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is modeled by replacing the matter velocity in the advection term in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Maxim Dvornikov

The explanation of the observed galactic magnetic fields may require the existence of a primordial magnetic field. Such a field may arise during the early cosmological phase transitions, or because of other particle physics related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kari Enqvist

A rigorous theory for the generation of a large-scale magnetic field by random non-helically forced motions of a conducting fluid combined with a linear shear is presented in the analytically tractable limit of low Rm and weak shear. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 T. Heinemann , J. C. McWilliams , A. A. Schekochihin

Magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters are amplified from a very weak seed value to the observed $\mu{\rm G}$ strengths by the turbulent dynamo. The seed magnetic field can be of primordial or astrophysical origin. The strength and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

This paper considers a possibility of magnetic-field generation by local turbulent flows at the bottom of convective zone. The cycle of magnetic-field generation in this model can be represented in the form of sequency of processes. There…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-18 Andrey G. Tlatov

Using a three dimensional relativistic particle-in-cell code we have performed numerical experiments of plasma shells colliding at relativistic velocities. Such scenarios are found in many astrophysical objects e.g. the relativistic outflow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. B. Hededal , J. Trier Frederiksen , T. Haugboelle , Å. Nordlund

Basically the only existing theories for the creation of a magnetic field B in the Universe are the creation of a seed field of order 10^{-20} G in spiral galaxy which is subsequently supposedly amplified up to the observed 10^{-6} -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Opher , U. F. Wichoski

Primordial magnetic fields of cosmologically interesting field strengths can be generated from gravitationally coupled electrodynamics during inflation. As the cosmological constraints require this to be power law inflation it is not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-14 Kerstin E. Kunze

We study the generation of magnetic field in the primordial plasma of the standard model (SM) particles at temperature $T>80$~TeV much higher than the electroweak scale. It is assumed that there is an excess number of right-handed electrons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arun Kumar Pandey

Building on earlier work, we develop an equation-of-motion method for calculating magnetic seed fields generated from currents arising from charged W fields in bubble collisions during a first-order primordial electroweak phase transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Trevor Stevens , Mikkel B. Johnson

This paper examines the generation of seed magnetic fields due to the growth of cosmological perturbations. In the radiation era, different rates of scattering from photons induce local differences in the ion and electron density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. R. Siegel , J. N. Fry