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The presence of asymmetry between fermions of opposite handedness in plasmas of relativistic particles can lead to exponential growth of a helical magnetic field via a small-scale chiral dynamo instability known as the chiral magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Axel Brandenburg , Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexey Boyarsky , Jurg Frohlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Nathan Kleeorin

Magnetic phenomena are in chemistry and condensed matter physics considered to be associated with low temperatures. That a magnetic state, or order, is stable below a critical temperature as well as becoming stronger the lower the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 J. Fransson

We propose a new chirality-imbalance phenomenon arising in baryonic/high dense matters under a magnetic field. A locally chiral-imbalanced (parity-odd) domain can be created due to the electromagnetically induced $U(1)_A$ anomaly in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Mamiya Kawaguchi , Shinya Matsuzaki

In dilute astrophysical plasmas, thermal conduction is primarily along magnetic field lines, and therefore highly anisotropic. As a result, the usual convective stability criterion is modified from a condition on entropy to a condition on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ian J. Parrish , James M. Stone

We study the dynamics of magnetic fields in chiral magnetohydrodynamics, which takes into account the effects of an additional electric current related to the chiral magnetic effect in high energy plasmas. We perform direct numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

We study the charge transports originating from triangle anomaly in out-of-equilibrium conditions in the framework of AdS/CFT correspondence at strong coupling, to gain useful insights on possible charge separation effects that may happen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Shu Lin , Ho-Ung Yee

We investigate the growth of hydromagnetic waves driven by streaming cosmic rays in the precursor environment of a supernova remnant shock. It is known that transverse waves propagating parallel to the mean magnetic field are unstable to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Reville , J. G. Kirk , P. Duffy , S. O. Sullivan

In supernova remnants, the nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields upstream of collisionless shocks is essential for the acceleration of cosmic rays to the energy of the "knee" at 10^{15.5}eV. A nonresonant instability driven by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yutaka Ohira , Brian Reville , John G. Kirk , Fumio Takahara

The growth and saturation of Buneman-type instabilities is examined with a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation for parameters that are representative for the foreshock region of fast supernova remnant (SNR) shocks. A dense ion beam and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. E. Dieckmann , A. Bret , G. Sarri , E. Perez Alvaro , I. Kourakis , M. Borghesi

Thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma, which is relevant in the intragalactic medium (IGM) of galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component plasma objects is investigated. We apply the multicomponent plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to provide the energy that prevents runaway cooling of gas in the cores of galaxy clusters. However, how this energy is transported and thermalized throughout the Intracluster Medium (ICM) remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Philipp Kempski , Eliot Quataert , Jonathan Squire

It is pointed out that electron thermal fluctuations can couple with the ion acoustic mode in an inhomogeneous plasma to generate a low frequency ion time scale electromagnetic wave. This electromagnetic wave can become unstable if the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hamid Saleem

Materials with charged chiral quasiparticles in external parallel electric and magnetic fields can support an electric current that grows linearly in time, corresponding to diverging DC conductivity. From experimental viewpoint, this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The phase diagram of dense quark matter with chiral imbalance is considered with the conditions of electric neutrality and $\beta$-equilibrium. It has been shown recently that chiral imbalance can generate charged pion condensation in dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 T. G. Khunjua , K. G. Klimenko , R. N. Zhokhov

Magnetised plasma turbulence can have a multiscale character: instabilities driven by mean temperature gradients drive turbulence at the disparate scales of the ion and the electron gyroradii. Simulations of multiscale turbulence, using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 M. R. Hardman , M. Barnes , C. M. Roach

The collision of two plasma clouds at a speed that exceeds the ion acoustic speed can result in the formation of shocks. This phenomenon is observed not only in astrophysical scenarios such as the propagation of supernova remnant (SNR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark Eric Dieckmann , Gianluca Sarri , Domenico Doria , Hamad Ahmed , Marco Borghesi

The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

Thermal instability (TI) is a trigger mechanism, which can explain formation of condensations through some regions of the interstellar clouds. Our goal here is to investigate some conditions for occurrence of TI and formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar

A nonresonant cosmic-ray-current-driven instability may operate in the shock precursors of young supernova remnants and be responsible for magnetic-field amplification, plasma heating and turbulence. Earlier simulations demonstrated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Oleh Kobzar , Jacek Niemiec , Martin Pohl , Artem Bohdan

We have determined the physical mechanism responsible for the plasma instabilities, which was first found by Ramani and Laval (1978), associated with anisotropic velocity distributions induced by the temperature gradient in which there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nobuhiro Okabe , Makoto Hattori