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We study the generation of primeval magnetic fields during inflation era in nonlinear theories of electrodynamics. Although the intensity of the produced fields strongly depends on characteristics of inflation and on the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Campanelli , P. Cea , G. L. Fogli , L. Tedesco

We propose a new mechanism for magnetic field generation from inflation, by which strong magnetic fields can be generated on cosmological scales. These fields may be observable by cosmic microwave background radition measurements, and may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomislav Prokopec , Ewald Puchwein

We study classical background electric fields and the Schwinger effect in de Sitter space. We show that having a constant electric field in de Sitter requires the photon to have a tachyonic mass proportional to the Hubble scale. This has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Mar Bastero-Gil , Paulo B. Ferraz , António Torres Manso , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Roberto Vega-Morales

We employ a self consistent framework to study the backreaction effects of particle creation in the coupled semiclassical dynamics of a quantum complex scalar field and a classical electric field in both (1 + 1) and (1 + 3) dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Shagun Kaushal , Suprit Singh

We revisit the mechanism of primordial magnetogenesis during inflation by taking into account the dynamics of the stochastic noises of the electromagnetic perturbations. We obtain the associated Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Alireza Talebian , Amin Nassiri-Rad , Hassan Firouzjahi

The inflationary production of magnetic field seeds for galaxies is discussed. The analysis is carried out by writing the wave equation of the electromagnetic field in curved spacetimes. The conformal invariance is broken by taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lambiase , A. R. Prasanna

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 consider the possibility of generation of the seeds of primordial magnetic field on inflation and show that the effect of the back reaction of this field can be very important. Assuming that back reaction does not spoil inflation we find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Vittoria Demozzi , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Hector Rubinstein

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

In this work, we explore the possibility of Schwinger pair creation triggered by magneto-centrifugal effects in the magnetosphere of SgrA*. We show that these effects become extremely efficient in the presence of a vortex-driven magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-05 Zaza N. Osmanov

Using the kinetic approach, we study the impact of the charged particles dynamics due to the Schwinger effect on the electric field evolution during inflation. As a simple model of the electric field generation, we consider the kinetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 E. V. Gorbar , A. I. Momot , O. O. Sobol , S. I. Vilchinskii

We consider the possibility of inflationary magnetogenesis due to dynamical couplings of the electromagnetic fields to gravity. We find that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during inflation without the strong coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 Peng Qian , Zong-Kuan Guo

Previous studies demonstrate that the inflaton, when coupled to the hypercharge Chern-Simons density, can source an explosive production of helical hypermagnetic fields. Then, in the absence of fermion production, those fields have the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yann Cado , Mariano Quirós

In this paper, we discussed the multiple vector fields during the inflation era and the inflationary magnetogenesis with multiple vector fields. Instead of a single coupling function in single vector field models, the coupling matrix…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Yu Li , Le-Yao Zhang

We investigate in more depth the issue of backreaction in models that attempt at generating cosmological magnetic fields at inflation. By choosing different, physically motivated, parametrisations, we are able to isolate the core of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-14 Federico R. Urban

Primordial magnetic fields are generated during inflation by considering actions that break the conformal invariance of the electromagnetic field. To break the conformal invariance, the electromagnetic fields are coupled either to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sagarika Tripathy , Debika Chowdhury , Rajeev Kumar Jain , L. Sriramkumar

Recently, a mechanism for generating astrophysically relevant magnetic fields via ultralight pseudoscalar dark matter, through the coupling term $g_{\phi \gamma} \phi F_{\mu \nu}\tilde{F}^{\mu\nu}$ in the Lagrangian density, was proposed in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ramkishor Sharma , Samarth Majumdar , Divya Sachdeva

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

We investigate inflationary magnetogenesis in a scenario where conformal invariance of electromagnetism is broken through a \emph{non-minimal Yukawa-like coupling between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar}. We account for electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Orlando Luongo , Antonino Giacomo Marino , Tommaso Mengoni

In a four dimensional inflation theory, a persistent electric field can be established by making the inflaton coupled to the gauge field like a dilaton. We investigate the pair production of scalar particles in the inflaton-driven electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Hiroyuki Kitamoto