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We report a novel feature of relic gravitational waves (GWs) in non-singular bounce cosmologies that is testable in light of GWs astronomy. In non-singular bounce cosmologies, the effective potential $M_p^2 a^{\prime \prime}/a$ that governs…

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It is shown that coupling system between fractal membranes and a Gaussian beam passing through a static magnetic field has strong selection capability for the stochastic relic gravitational wave background. The relic GW components…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Fangyu Li , Zhenya Chen , Ying Yi

The origin of the observed large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is a mystery. The seed of these magnetic fields has been attributed to physical process in the early universe. In this work we provide a mechanism for the generation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 Abhishek Atreya , Soma Sanyal

We consider the evolution of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological, electroweak or QCD, phase transitions. We assume that the magnetic field generation can be described as an injection of magnetic energy to cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Axel Brandenburg , Andrii Neronov

In a previous paper [1] we considered the possibility that (within the early-radiation epoch) there has been (also) a short period of a significant presence of cosmic strings. During this radiation-plus-strings stage the Universe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Kostas Kleidis , Apostolos Kuiroukidis , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to a predicted phenomena in quantum chromodynamics that manifests as a charge separation along an external magnetic field, driven by an imbalance of quark chirality. Searches for the CME has been…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Li , Qiye Shou , Fuqiang Wang

The relic gravitational wave (RGW) generated during the inflation depends on the initial condition via the amplitude, the spectral index $n_t$ and the running index $\alpha_t$. CMB observations so far have only constrained the tensor-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-22 Jie-Wen Chen , Yang Zhang , Wen Zhao , Ming-Lei Tong

Recently there has been significant interest in the macroscopic manifestation of chiral anomaly in many-body systems of chiral fermions. A notable example is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). Enthusiastic efforts have been made to search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-06 Anping Huang , Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , Pengfei Zhuang

We study relic gravitational waves in the paradigm of quintessential inflation. In this framework, irrespective of the underlying model, inflation is followed by the kinetic regime. Thereafter, the field energy density remains sub-dominant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-27 Safia Ahmad , R. Myrzakulov , M. Sami

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We study the emission of gravitational waves produced by the magnetosphere of magnetars. We argue that several features in the spectrum could facilitate the identification of that source. In addition, in cases of extremely large magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 Chris Kouvaris

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field of single-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. A major background of CME measurements in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-08 Jie Zhao

The interplay of quantum anomalies with magnetic field and vorticity results in a variety of novel non-dissipative transport phenomena in systems with chiral fermions, including the quark-gluon plasma. Among them is the Chiral Magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 D. E. Kharzeev , J. Liao , S. A. Voloshin , G. Wang

We study the magnetohydrodynamics of relativistic plasmas accounting for the chiral magnetic effect (CME). To take into account the evolution of the plasma velocity, obeying the Navier-Stokes equation, we approximate it by the Lorentz force…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

The recent finding of the gravitational wave (GW) signal by the NANOGrav collaboration in the nHZ frequency range has opened up the door for the existence of stochastic GWs. In the present work, we have argued that in a hot dense neutrino…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Arun Kumar Pandey

The observation of primordial gravitational waves could provide a new and unique window on the earliest moments in the history of the universe, and on possible new physics at energies many orders of magnitude beyond those accessible at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Lawrence Krauss , Scott Dodelson , Stephan Meyer

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

The power spectrum of a homogeneous and isotropic stochastic variable, characterized by a finite correlation length, does in general not vanish on scales larger than the correlation scale. If the variable is a divergence free vector field,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer

We calculate the gravitational waves (GW) spectrum produced in various Early Universe scenarios from gauge field sources, thus generalizing earlier inflationary calculations to bouncing cosmologies. We consider generic couplings between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ido Ben-Dayan

We investigate polarized gravitational waves generated by chiral fermions in the early Universe. In particular, we focus on the contribution from left-handed neutrinos in thermal equilibrium with finite temperature and chemical potential in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Philipp Gubler , Naoki Yamamoto , Di-Lun Yang