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In this study, we introduce a novel approach for deriving the solution of the ideal force-free steady-state pulsar magnetosphere in three dimensions. Our method involves partitioning the magnetosphere into the regions of closed and open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Ioannis Dimitropoulos , Ioannis Contopoulos , Vassilis Mpisketzis , Evangelos Chaniadakis

A quantum nature of vacuum is expected to affect electromagnetic fields in vacuum as a nonlinear correction, yielding nonlinear Maxwell's equations. We extend the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method in the case that the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-04 Kazunori Shibata

We present a detailed analysis of the properties of twisted, force-free magnetospheres of non-rotating neutron stars, which are of interest in the modelling of magnetar properties and evolution. In our models the magnetic field smoothly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Taner Akgün , Juan Antonio Miralles , José A. Pons , Pablo Cerdá-Durán

We present solutions of force-free pulsar magnetospheres coupled with a uniform external magnetic field aligned with the dipole magnetic moment of the pulsar. The inclusion of the uniform magnetic field has the following consequences: The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Donald Lynden-Bell

The electromagnetic theory is considered in the framework of the generally covariant approach, that is applied to the analysis of electromagnetism in noninertial coordinate and frame systems. The special-relat\-ivistic formulation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Yuri N. Obukhov

The magnetospheres of magnetars, a class of highly magnetized neutron stars, host magnetic fields exceeding the Schwinger limit, where Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) becomes nonlinear. In such environments, QED scattering processes are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Olavi Kiuru , Joonas Nättilä , Risto Paatelainen , Aleksi Vuorinen

Force-Free Electrodynamics (FFE) is known to describe the highly magnetized plasma around pulsars and astrophysical black holes. The equations describing FFE are highly non-linear and the task of finding a well-defined analytical solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Rakshak Adhikari , Govind Menon , Mikhail V. Medvedev

Magnetized neutron stars constitute a special class of compact objects harbouring gravitational fields that deviate strongly from the Newtonian weak field limit. Moreover strong electromagnetic fields anchored into the star give rise to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-22 J. Pétri

Quantum electrodynamics (QED) becomes nonlinear when the magnetic field strength surpasses the critical Schwinger limit $B_Q \approx 4.41\cdot 10^{13}$ G. This limit is surpassed, for example, in the magnetospheres of a specific class of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Olavi Kiuru

We give a derivation for the indirect interaction between two magnetic dipoles induced by the quantized electromagnetic field. It turns out that the interaction between permanent dipoles directly returns to the classical form; the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Jiaxuan Wang , Hui Dong , Sheng-Wen Li

By using the quantum hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations, we derive nonlinear electron-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), Hall-MHD, and dust Hall-MHD equations for dense quantum magnetoplasmas. The nonlinear equations include the electromagnetic,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Shukla , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo

Aims. Many recent observations of pulsars and magnetars can be interpreted in terms of neutron stars (NS) with multipole electromagnetic fields. As a first approximation, we investigate the multipole magnetic and electric fields in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 S. Bonazzola , F. Mottez , J. Heyvaerts

It is well known that the source-free Maxwell equations are invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations, F --> F cos {\theta} + *F sin {\theta}. These transformations are indeed a symmetry of the theory in Noether sense. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-12 Ivan Agullo , Adrian del Rio , Jose Navarro-Salas

Quantum fluctuations in the QED vacuum generate non-linear effects, such as peculiar induced electromagnetic fields. In particular, we show here that an electrically neutral particle, possessing a magnetic dipole moment, develops an induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 C. A. Dominguez , H. Falomir , M. Ipinza , S. Kohler , M. Loewe , J. C. Rojas

The main issue of the pulsar magnetosphere is how the rotation power is converted into both particle beams which causes pulsed emissions, and a highly relativistic wind of electron-positron plasmas which forms surrounding nebulae shining in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

The magnetic dipole (M1) and electric quadupole (E2) responses of two-dimensional quantum dots with an elliptic shape are theoretically investigated as a function of the dot deformation and applied static magnetic field. Neglecting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico Lipparini , Llorenç Serra , Antonio Puente

Electromagnetism becomes a nonlinear theory having (effective) photon-photon interactions due at least to electron-positron fluctuations in the vacuum. We discuss the consequences of the nonlinearity for the force felt by a charge probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-20 Lance Labun , Jan Rafelski

Following the basic principles of a charge separated pulsar magnetosphere \citep{goldreich1969}, we consider the magnetosphere be stationary in space, instead of corotating, and the electric field be uploaded from the potential distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 K. H. Tsui

In this work, I study the non-linear QED effects to the Maxwell equations due to the interaction of the electromagnetic waves with an external magnetic field with arbitrary direction with respect to the direction of propagation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-06 Damian Ejlli

We investigate the axisymmetric magnetosphere of an aligned rotating magnetic dipole surrounded by an ideal force-free plasma. We concentrate on the magnetic field structure around the point of intersection of the separatrix between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitri A. Uzdensky