English
Related papers

Related papers: Varying Electromagnetic Coupling and Primordial Ma…

200 papers

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

Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance compatible with observational limits may realistically take place in the context of string theories, possibly endowing the photon with a mass. In this process the conformal symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 O. Bertolami , D. F. Mota

A new mechanism for the evolution of primordial magnetic fields is described and analysed. The field evolution is followed from the time of its creation until the epoch of structure and galaxy formation. The mechanism takes into account the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Dimopoulos , A. C. Davis

We reconstruct the 3D structure of magnetic fields, which were seeded by density perturbations during the radiation dominated epoch of the Universe and later on were evolved by structure formation. To achieve this goal, we rely on three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Sebastian Hutschenreuter , Sebastian Dorn , Jens Jasche , Franco Vazza , Daniela Paoletti , Guilhem Lavaux , Torsten A. Enßlin

Any attempt to understand the ubiquitous nature of the magnetic field in the present universe seems to lead us towards its primordial origin. For large-scale magnetic fields, however, their strength and length scale may not necessarily…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity , Rohan Srikanth

Dynamical extra dimensions break the conformal invariance of Maxwell's equations in four dimensions. A higher dimensional background with $n$ contracting extra dimensions and four expanding dimensions is matched to an effectively four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Kerstin E. Kunze

We reexamine generation of the primordial magnetic fields, at temperature $T>80$TeV, by applying a consistent kinetic theory framework which is suitably modified to take the quantum anomaly into account. The modified kinetic equation can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-01 Arun Kumar Pandey , Jitesh R. Bhatt

Building on earlier work, we develop an equation-of-motion method for calculating magnetic seed fields generated from currents arising from charged W fields in bubble collisions during a first-order primordial electroweak phase transition…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Trevor Stevens , Mikkel B. Johnson

Production of electron-positron pairs in two oscillating strong electric field pulses with largely different frequencies and durations is considered. In a first scenario, the influence of a low-frequency background field on pair production…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 N. Folkerts , J. Putzer , S. Villalba-Chávez , C. Müller

Magnetic field plays a very important role in many astronomical phenomena at various scales of the universe. It is no exception in the early universe. Since the energy density, pressure, and tension of the primordial magnetic field affect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Ken-ichi Umezu , Hidekazu Hanayama

The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electromagnetic field of an arbitrary configuration is investigating. At high energy the correction to the standard quasiclassical approximation (SQA) has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 V. M. Katkov

We explore the ways in which primordial magnetic fields influence the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination universe. After recombination the universe becomes mostly neutral resulting also in a sharp drop in the radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shiv K. Sethi , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Magnetic fields are often invoked as playing a primary role in star formation and in the formation of high-mass stars. We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on the formation of high-mass cores using the 3-dimensional smoothed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-04 Katerina Sophia Klos , Ian A. Bonnell , Rowan J. Smith

The inflationary production of magnetic field seeds for galaxies is discussed. The analysis is carried out by writing the wave equation of the electromagnetic field in curved spacetimes. The conformal invariance is broken by taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lambiase , A. R. Prasanna

This letter concentrates on the non-equilibrium evolution of magnetic field structures at the onset of recombination, when the charged particle current densities decay as neutrals are formed. We consider the effect that a decaying magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Declan A. Diver , Luis F. A. Teodoro

Exact stationary solutions of the wave equation are obtained to describe the interaction between magnetic moment of elementary particle and circularly polarized photons. The obtained solutions substantially modify the conventional model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-30 O. V. Kibis

We study the implications of primordial magnetic fields for the thermal and ionization history of the post-recombination era. In particular we compute the effects of dissipation of primordial magnetic fields owing to ambipolar diffusion and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shiv K Sethi , Biman B. Nath , Kandaswamy Subramanian

Primordial magnetic fields may be created in collisions of expanding bubbles in a first-order cosmological phase transition and later serve as seed fields for galactic magnetic fields. Here I present results from numerical and analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ola Tornkvist

The origin and maintenance of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is discussed. A popular idea is that cosmic batteries generate seed magnetic fields which were amplified by magnetic induction due to turbulent motions, at times…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Kandaswamy Subramanian

In ferromagnetic metals, an effective electromagnetic field which couples to conduction electron spin is induced by the sd exchange interaction. We investigate how this effective field, spin electromagnetic field, interacts with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 Hideo Kawaguchi , Gen Tatara