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Motivated by a scenario of magnetogenesis in which a homogeneous magnetic field is generated during inflation, we study the magnetohydrodynamic evolution of the primordial plasma motions for two kinds of initial conditions -- (i) a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Axel Brandenburg , Ruth Durrer , Yiwen Huang , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Shinji Mukohyama

Primordial magnetic fields may account for all or part of the fields observed in galaxies. We consider the evolution of the magnetic fields created by pseudoscalar effects in the early universe. Such processes can create force-free fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George B. Field , Sean M. Carroll

We derive exact scaling laws for a three-dimensional incompressible helical two-fluid plasma, without the assumption of isotropy. For each ideal invariant of the two-fluid model, i.e. the total energy, the electron helicity and the proton…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Nahuel Andrés , Sebastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui

We investigate the generation of magnetic fields from inflation, which occurs via breakdown of the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic (EM) field, when coupled with the Ricci scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. For the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Kazuharu Bamba , E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov , Tanmoy Paul

Recently observational lower bounds on the strength of cosmic magnetic fields were reported, based on gamma-ray flux from distant blazars. If inflation is responsible for the generation of such magnetic fields then the inflation energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-23 Tomohiro Fujita , Shinji Mukohyama

According to a model of quantum cosmology the maximum number of degrees of freedom allowed in our three dimensions was determined by the size of seven extra dimensions in an initial excited state before inflation. The size of the extra…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Funkhouser

We study the instability of magnetic fields in a neutron star core driven by the parity violating part of the electron-nucleon interaction in the Standard Model. Assuming a seed field of the order $10^{12}\thinspace\text{G}$, that is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

Starting from pure multidimensional gravity with curvature-nonlinear terms but no matter fields in the initial action, we obtain a cosmological model with two effective scalar fields related to the size of two extra factor spaces. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 K. A. Bronnikov , S. G. Rubin , I. V. Svadkovsky

Helical intergalactic magnetic fields at the $\sim 10^{-14}~{\rm G}$ level on $\sim 10~{\rm Mpc}$ length scales are indicated by current gamma ray observations. The existence of magnetic fields in cosmic voids and their non-trivial helicity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Tanmay Vachaspati

Most early Universe scenarios predict negligible magnetic fields on cosmological scales if they are unprocessed during subsequent expansion of the Universe. We present a new numerical treatment of the evolution of primordial fields and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guenter Sigl

The Quantum cosmology with Born-Infeld(B-I) type scalar field is considered. In the extreme limits of small cosmological scale factor the wave function of the universe can also be obtained by applying the methods developed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Q. Lu , W. Fang , Z. G. Huang , P. Y. Ji

Cosmic kinematic fast dynamo is found in non-inflationary phases of an ellipsoidal anisotropic cosmological metric background solution of Einstein field equations of general relativity. The magnetic field is amplified inside the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-13 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We consider the production of gravitational KK modes via cosmological photon-photon and electron-positron annihilation in models with large factorisable extra dimensions. We place constraints on this production using recent results from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Malcolm Fairbairn , Louise M Griffiths

The generation of primordial magnetic seed fields during inflation is studied in a theory derived from the one-loop vacuum polarization effective action of the photon in a curved background. This includes terms which couple the curvature to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Kerstin E. Kunze

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

In this letter, we discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Hiroshi Ohno , Hidekazu Hanayama

We develop a two-scale formalism to determine global magnetic helicity spectra in systems where the local magnetic helicity has opposite signs on both sides of the equator, giving rise to cancelation with conventional methods. We verify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-07 Axel Brandenburg , Gordon J. D. Petrie , Nishant K. Singh

A complete numerical calculation of the temperature anisotropies and polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in the presence of a stochastic helical magnetic field is presented which includes the contributions due to scalar,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Kerstin E. Kunze

The theory of large scale dynamos is reviewed with particular emphasis on the magnetic helicity constraint in the presence of closed and open boundaries. In the presence of closed or periodic boundaries, helical dynamos respond to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Brandenburg , W. Dobler , K. Subramanian

We consider the amplification of electromagnetic quantum vacuum fluctuations induced by the presence of metric perturbations at the end of inflation. We obtain the amplitude of the corresponding magnetic fields on super-Hubble scales and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio L. Maroto
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