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There is an elementary but indispensable relationship between the topology and geometry of massive particles. The geometric spin $s$ is related to the topological dimension of the internal space $V$ by $\dim V = 2s + 1$. This breaks down…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Eric Palmerduca , Hong Qin

In the solar atmosphere the twist parameter $\alpha$ has the same sign as magnetic helicity. It has been observed using photospheric vector magnetograms that negative/positive helicity is dominant in the northern/southern hemisphere of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. K. Tiwari , P. Venkatakrishnan , K. Sankarasubramanian

A simple conserved quantity for electromagnetic fields in vacuum was discovered by Lipkin in 1964. In recent years this "zilch" has been used as a measure of the chirality of light. The conservation of optical zilch is here derived from a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. G. Philbin

Kinetic helicity is a fundamental characteristics of astrophysical turbulent flows. It is not only responsible for the generation of large-scale magnetic fields in the Sun, stars, and spiral galaxies, but it also affects turbulent diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Igor Rogachevskii , Nathan Kleeorin , Axel Brandenburg

While several articles have been written on Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) flows or flows with constant vorticity separately, little is known about the extent to which the combined effects of EHD and constant vorticity affect the flow. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-24 M. V. Flamarion , E. Kochurin , R. Ribeiro-Jr , N. Zubarev

The generalized definition of symmetry is formulated. Application of this definition for symmetric analysis of theoretical physics equations is considered. The version of electrodynamics is constructed permitting the faster-than-light…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Kotel'nikov

The coherence length of the thermal electromagnetic field near a planar surface has a minimum value related to the nonlocal dielectric response of the material. We perform two model calculations of the electric energy density and the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-17 Carsten Henkel , Karl Joulain

In a density-stratified turbulent medium the cross helicity <u'.B'> is considered as a result of the interaction of the velocity fluctuations and a large-scale magnetic field. By means of a quasilinear theory and by numerical simulations we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 G. Rüdiger , L. L. Kitchatinov , A. Brandenburg

Some common properties of helical magnetic fields in decaying and driven turbulence are discussed. These include mainly the inverse cascade that produces fields on progressively larger scales. Magnetic helicity also restricts the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Brandenburg

The exact wave functions, which describe the states of an electron, bound in the image potential, and the magnetic field, which is perpendicular to surface of a metal, are obtained. The correction terms to the energy of an electron in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 P. A. Golovinski , M. A. Preobrazhenskiy

Plasma velocity and magnetic field measurements from the Voyager 2 mission are used to study solar wind turbulence in the slow solar wind at two different heliocentric distances, 5 and 29 astronomical units, sufficiently far apart to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 M. Iovieno , L. Gallana , F. Fraternale , J. D. Richardson , M. Opher , D. Tordella

The hypermagnetic helicity density at the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) exceeds many orders of magnitude the galactic magnetic helicity density. Together with previous magnetic helicity evolution calculations after the EWPT and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. B. Semikoz , D. Sokoloff , J. W. F. Valle

We demonstrate that the inclusion of the helicity flux in the magnetic helicity balance in the nonlinear stage of galactic dynamo action results in a radical change in the magnetic field dynamics. The equilibrium value of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kleeorin , D. Moss , I. Rogachevskii , D. Sokoloff

Relative magnetic helicity is commonly used in solar physics to avoid the well known gauge ambiguity of standard magnetic helicity in magnetically open domains. But its physical interpretation is difficult owing to the invocation of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Anthony R. Yeates , Gunnar Hornig

The one--loop effective action for a slowly varying electromagnetic field is computed at finite temperature and density using a real-time formalism. We discuss the gauge invariance of the result. Corrections to the Debye mass from an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Per Elmfors , Bo-Sture Skagerstam

The Temporal Fluctuation Model proposed in present paper represents an attempt for a unitary vision for gravity, inertia and electromagnetism. We obtain the main results of General Relativity and Electromagnetism and the theory, until now,…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viorel Drafta

We study the evolution of a stochastic helical magnetic field generated in the early Universe after the electroweak phase transition, using standard magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We find how the coherence length xi, magnetic energy E_M and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mark Hindmarsh , M. Christensson , A. Brandenburg

The electric current helicity density $\displaystyle \chi=\langle\epsilon_{ijk}b_i\frac{\partial b_k}{\partial x_j}\rangle$ contains six terms, where $b_i$ are components of the magnetic field. Due to the observational limitations, only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 H. Xu , R. Stepanov , K. Kuzanyan , D. Sokoloff , H. Zhang , Y. Gao

Observations of magnetic helicity transportation through the solar photosphere reflect the interaction of turbulent plasma movements and magnetic fields in the solar dynamo process. In this chapter, we have reviewed the research process of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Hongqi Zhang , Shangbin Yang , Haiqing Xu , Xiao Yang , Jie Chen , Jihong Liu

By modeling a linear, anisotropic and inhomogeneous magnetodielectric medium with two independent set of harmonic oscillators, electromagnetic field is quantized in such a medium. The electric and magnetic polarizations of the medium are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 M. Amooshahi , F. Kheirandish
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