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Using the generally covariant magnetofluid formalism for a hot plasma, a new curvature (of space time) driven mechanism for generating seed vorticity/magnetic field is presented. The "battery" owes its origin to the interaction between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-09 Swadesh M. Mahajan , Felipe A. Asenjo

The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

In this work we consider the most general electromagnetic theory in curved space-time leading to linear second order differential equations, including non-minimal couplings to the space-time curvature. We assume the presence of a temporal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

Using the generally covariant magnetofluid formalism for a hot plasma, a new spacetime curvature driven mechanism for generating seed vorticity/magnetic field is presented. The ``battery'' owes its origin to the interaction between gravity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Felipe A. Asenjo , Swadesh M. Mahajan , Asghar Qadir

We revisit the problem of magnetic field generation in accretion flows onto black holes owing to the excess radiation force on electrons. This excess force may arise from the Poynting-Robertson effect. Instead of a recent claim of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , R. V. E. Lovelace , V. A. Belinski

Evidences indicate that the dark energy constitutes about two thirds of the critical density of the universe. If the dark energy is an evolving pseudo scalar field that couples to electromagnetism, a cosmic magnetic seed field can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Da-Shin Lee , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

I study the generation and evolution of magnetic fields in the plasma surrounding a rotating black hole. Attention is focused on effects of the gravitomagnetic potential. The gravitomagnetic force appears as battery term in the generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramon Khanna

Context. Magnetic batteries are potential sources that may drive the generation of a seed magnetic field, even if this field is initially zero. These batteries can be the result of non-aligned thermodynamic gradients in a plasma, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Nicolás Villarroel-Sepúlveda , Felipe A. Asenjo , Pablo S. Moya

We propose that cosmological magnetic fields generated in regions of finite spatial dimensions may manifest themselves in the global dynamics of the Universe as `dark energy'. We test our model in the context of spatially flat cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 Ioannis Contopoulos , Spyros Basilakos

A new generation mechanism of the magnetic field in an inhomogeneous collisionless plasma with a beam component is proposed. We show that even though the current and charge neutralities are initially satisfied, the current neutrality is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Yutaka Ohira

The Biermann battery is a promising generation mechanism of a seed magnetic field in the universe. We propose a new driving mechanism for the Biermann battery in an inhomogeneous plasma with a beam component. An inhomogeneous electron flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Yutaka Ohira

It has been recently argued \cite{Barvinsky:2017lfl} that the de Sitter phase in cosmology might be naturally generated as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a strongly coupled QCD-like gauge theory in expanding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

A new scenario for creation of galactic magnetic fields is proposed which is operative at the cosmological epoch of the galaxy formation, and which relies on unconventional properties of dark matter. Namely, it requires existence of feeble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 Zurab Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov , I. I. Tkachev

We suggest a new mechanism for generation of large-scale magnetic field in the hot plasma of early universe which is based on the parity violation in weak interactions and depends neither on helicity of matter turbulence resulting in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. B. Semikoz , D. D. Sokoloff

A model concerning particle theory and cosmology is proposed. Matter field, dark matter and dark energy are created by an energy flow from space to primordial matter fields at the phase transition in the early universe.

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Masayasu Tsuge

We describe the generation of the electric current flowing along the external magnetic field in the system of massive charged fermions, possessing anomalous magnetic moments and electroweakly interacting with background matter. This current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-07 Maxim Dvornikov

We investigate the possibility that the galactic dark matter exists in an scenario where the phantom field is responsible for the dark energy. We obtain the statically and spherically approximate solution for this kind of the galaxy system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Ming-Hsun Li , Kwei-Chou Yang

It is demonstrated that targets with a broken rotational symmetry may facilitate generation of a strong axial (poloidal) magnetic field. An intense laser beam irradiating such a target creates intense electron currents carrying vorticity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ph. Korneev , V. Tikhonchuk , E. d'Humières

The magnetic field generation by a relativistic laser light irradiated on a thin target at the oblique incidence is investigated using a two dimensional particle-in-cell simulation. The surface magnetic field inhibits the electron transport…

The idea that dark energy is gravitational waves may explain its strength and its time-evolution provided that the additional energy comes from a background. A possible concept is that dark energy is the ensemble of coherent bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Peter L. Biermann , Benjamin C. Harms
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