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Noncommutative corrections to the metric tensor can be significantly enhanced by the presence of electromagnetic fields. Neutron stars, with their large magnetic fields, are possible candidates to search for such effects. We use precision…

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This review discusses the physics of magnetic reconnection, a process in which the magnetic field topology changes and magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy, in pair plasmas in the relativistic regime. We focus on recent progress…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Daniel Kagan , Lorenzo Sironi , Benoit Cerutti , Dimitrios Giannios

Magnetic interaction between a weighing sample and an external magnetic field allows to measure characteristics of magnetic field (a sample with known magnetic characteristics), as well as the magnetic properties of a sample (a known…

Magneto-resistance is a physical effect of great fundamental and industrial interest since it is the basis for the magnetic field sensors used in computer read-heads and Magnetic Random Access Memories. As device dimensions are reduced,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Viret , M. Gabureac , F. Ott , C. Fermon , C. Barreteau , R. Guirado-Lopez

Kinematic distributions in the decays of the newly discovered resonance to four leptons can provide a direct measurement of the tensor structure of the particle's couplings to gauge bosons. Even if the particle is shown to be a parity even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Daniel Stolarski , Roberto Vega-Morales

The properties of the turbulence which develops in the outflows of magnetic reconnection have been investigated using self-consistent plasma simulations, in three dimensions. As commonly observed in space plasmas, magnetic reconnection is…

This work introduces a mathematical approach to analysing the polymer dynamics in turbulent viscoelastic flows that uses a new geometric decomposition of the conformation tensor, along with associated scalar measures of the polymer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-22 Ismail Hameduddin , Charles Meneveau , Tamer A. Zaki , Dennice F. Gayme

Magnetic reconnection often initiates abruptly and then rapidly progresses to a nonlinear quasi-steady state. While satellites frequently detect reconnection events, ascertaining whether the system has achieved steady-state or is still…

The pressure tensor (equivalent to the negative stress tensor) at both microscopic and macroscopic levels is fundamental to many aspects of engineering and science, including fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, biophysics, and thermodynamics.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Kaihang Shi , Edward Smith , Erik E. Santiso , Keith E. Gubbins

(This is a report for the Proceedings of ``Journees Relativistes 1993'' written in September 1993. Containes a short description of the results published elsewhere in the joint paper with A. Ashtekar) Integral calculus on the space of gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Jerzy Lewandowski

It is believed that soon after the Planck era, spacetime should have a semi-classical nature. Therefore, it is unavoidable to modify the theory of General Relativity or look for alternative theories of gravitation. An interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-01 Daniel Müller , Márcio E. S. Alves , José C. N. de Araujo

A symmetric and conserved energy-momentum tensor for a scalar field in a moving medium is derived using the Gordon metric. When applied to an electromagnetic field, the method gives a similar result. This approach thus points a way out of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Finn Ravndal

Magnetic reconnection is a process that changes magnetic field topology in highly conducting fluids. Within the standard Sweet-Parker model, this process would be too slow to explain observations (e.g. solar flares). In reality, the process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves , Alex Lazarian , Ethan T. Vishniac

Tensor models are measures for random tensors. They generalise matrix models and were developed to study random geometry in arbitrary dimension. Moreover, they are strongly connected to quantum gravity theories as additionally to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Thibault Delepouve

Combining gravity with quantum theory is still work in progress. On the one hand, classical gravity, is the geometry of space-time determined by the energy-momentum tensor of matter and the resulting nonlinear equations; on the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 P. Gusin , D. Burys , A. Radosz

A general method for describing magnetic reconnection in arbitrary three-dimensional magnetic configurations is proposed. The method is based on the field-line mapping technique previously used only for the analysis of magnetic structure at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 V. S. Titov , T. G. Forbes , E. R. Priest , Z. Mikic , J. A. Linker

We provide examples of periodic solutions (in both 2 and 3 dimension) of the Magnetohydrodynamics equations such that the topology of the magnetic lines changes during the evolution. This phenomenon, known as magnetic reconnection, is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Pedro Caro , Gennaro Ciampa , Renato Lucà

Modified gravity theories often contain a scalar field of gravitational strength which interacts with matter. We examine constraints on the range and the coupling strength of a scalar gravitational degree of freedom using a subset of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Alireza Hojjati , Aaron Plahn , Alex Zucca , Levon Pogosian , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Gong-Bo Zhao

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in employing rotational motion measurements for seismic source inversion, structural imaging and ambient noise analysis. We derive reciprocity and representation theorems for rotational…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Kees Wapenaar

The attraction measure, scaling exponent, and impedance function of the gravity model are redefined using the concepts from fractals and spatial complexity. Firstly, the attraction measure of spatial interaction in human systems is defined…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-18 Yanguang Chen , Feng Xu