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We propose a novel scenario to generate primordial magnetic fields during inflation induced by an oscillating coupling of the electromagnetic field to the inflaton. This resonant mechanism has two key advantages over previous proposals.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Christian T. Byrnes , Lukas Hollenstein , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Federico R. Urban

We explore the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in the so-called moduli inflation. The hypercharge electromagnetic fields couple to not only a scalar field but also a pseudoscalar one, so that the conformal invariance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 Kazuharu Bamba

If the conformal invariance of electromagnetism is broken during inflation, then primordial magnetic fields may be produced. If this symmetry breaking is generated by the coupling between electromagnetism and a scalar field---e.g. the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert R. Caldwell , Leonardo Motta , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate the generation of large-scale magnetic fields due to the breaking of the conformal invariance in the electromagnetic field through the $CPT$-even dimension-six Chern-Simons-like effective interaction with a fermion current by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Kazuharu Bamba , C. Q. Geng , S. H. Ho , W. F. Kao

It is usually assumed that when Weyl invariance is unbroken in the electromagnetic sector, the energy density of primordial magnetic fields will redshift as radiation. Here we show that primordial magnetic fields do not exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Takeshi Kobayashi , Martin S. Sloth

We discuss a model which can generate scale-invariant helical magnetic fields on large scales ($\lesssim 1$Mpc) in the primordial universe. It is also shown that the electric conductivity becomes significant and terminates magnetogenesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Tomohiro Fujita , Ruth Durrer

The interplay among the possible variation of gauge coupling and the inflationary dynamics is investigated in a simplified toy model. Depending upon various parameters (scalar mass, curvature scale at the end of inflation and at the onset…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimo Giovannini

In this paper, we study the generation of a large scale magnetic field with amplitude of order $\mu$G in an inflationary model which has been introduced in hep-th/0310221. This inflationary model based on existence of a speed limit for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohammad A. Ganjali

Using a semiclassical approach to Gravitoelectromagnetic Inflation (GEMI), we study the origin and evolution of seminal inflaton and electromagnetic fields in the early inflationary universe from a 5D vacuum state. We use simultaneously the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Federico Agustin Membiela , Mauricio Bellini

We study the generation of magnetic fields during inflation making use of a coupling of the inflaton and moduli fields to electromagnetism via the photon kinetic term, and assuming that the coupling is an increasing function of time. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam , Evan McDonough , Ryo Namba , Robert H. Brandenberger

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

There is an observational indication of extragalactic magnetic fields. No known astrophysical process can explain the origin of such large scale magnetic fields, which motivates us to look for their origin in primordial inflation. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The magnetogenesis scenarios triggered by the early variation of the gauge coupling are critically analyzed. In the absence of sources, it is shown that the electric and magnetic power spectra can be explicitly computed by means of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini

We construct a consistent model of Galileon scalar electrodynamics. The model satisfies three essential requirements: (1) The action contains higher-order derivative terms, and obey the Galilean symmetry, (2) Equations of motion also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-25 Ashu Kushwaha , S. Shankaranarayanan

A model of inflation is presented where the inflaton field is a complex scalar field coupled to a U(1) gauge field. Due to the axial symmetry of the potential, the inflation is driven by the radial direction while the angular field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Razieh Emami , Hassan Firouzjahi , M. Sadegh Movahed

Cosmological vector fields are central to many early-Universe phenomena, including inflationary dynamics, primordial magnetogenesis, and dark-matter scenarios. However, constructing models able to generate cosmological magnetic fields while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 H. V. Ragavendra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , L. Sriramkumar

Recently, there are several reports that the cosmic magnetic fields on Mpc scale in void region is larger than $\sim 10^{-15}$G with an uncertainty of a few orders from the current blazar observations. On the other hand, in inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomohiro Fujita , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In most of the literature on evolution of cosmological magnetic fields, it is found that large-scale magnetic fields evolve as $B^{2}\propto a^{-4}$ (adiabatic magnetic decay) where $a$ is the cosmological scale factor and $B$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-23 Timothy Oreta , Bob Osano

We describe a simple scenario of inflationary magnetogenesis based on a helical coupling to electromagnetism. It allows to generate helical magnetic fields of strength of order up to $10^{- 7}\,\text{G}$, when extrapolated to the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Yu. V. Shtanov , M. V. Pavliuk

We study the generation of magnetic fields in the Higgs inflation model with the axial coupling in order to break the conformal invariance of the Maxwell action and produce strong magnetic fields. We consider radiatively corrected Higgs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-17 Mehran Kamarpour