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Large-scale coherent magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium are presumed to play a key role in the formation and evolution of the cosmic web, and in large scale feedback mechanisms. However, they are theorized to be extremely weak, in…

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The standard $\Lambda$CDM paradigm is complemented with a magnetized contribution whose effects on the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are assessed by means of a dedicated numerical approach. The accuracy on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

We show that it is possible to generate continuous-wave fields and pulses of polarization squeezed light by sending classical, linearly polarized laser light twice through an atomic sample which causes an optical Faraday rotation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 Jacob F. Sherson , Klaus Molmer

We solve the wave equation for the electromagnetic field tensors associated with the CMBR photons in a universe with scalar metric perturbations. We show that the coupling of the electromagnetic fields with the curvature associated with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Subhendra Mohanty , A. R. Prasanna

During cosmic recombination, charged particles bind into neutral atoms and the mean free path of photons rapidly increases, resulting in the familiar diffusion damping of primordial radiation temperature variations. An additional effect is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Nathaniel Starkman , Glenn Starkman , Arthur Kosowsky

Light-matter coupling is investigated by rotating, by an angle \theta, the polarization of linearly polarized microwaves with respect to the long-axis of GaAs/AlGaAs Hall-bar electron devices. At low microwave power, P, experiments show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. N. Ramanayaka , R. G. Mani , J. Iñarrea , W. Wegscheider

A joint action of depth and bandwidth depolarization in the interstellar medium is considered using a model of N homogeneous synchrotron layers with Faraday rotation. The bandwidth depolarization can be used in multifrequency polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. N. Vinyajkin

Using one-dimensional models, we show that a helical magnetic field with an appropriate sign of helicity can compensate the Faraday depolarization resulting from the superposition of Faraday-rotated polarization planes from a spatially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Axel Brandenburg , Rodion Stepanov

Forthcoming cosmic microwave background experiments (CMB) will provide precise new tests of structure-formation theories. The geometry of the Universe may be determined robustly, and the classical cosmological parameters, such as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc Kamionkowski

Using a set of compilations of measurements for extragalactic radio sources we construct all-sky maps of the Faraday Rotation produced by the Galactic magnetic field. In order to generate the maps we treat the radio source positions as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Dineen , Peter Coles

Recent observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have extended the measured power spectrum to higher multipoles $l\gtrsim$1000, and there appears to be possible evidence for excess power on small angular scales. The primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 D. Yamazaki , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , G. J. Mathews

Temperature anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background offers a test of the fundamental symmetry of spacetime during cosmic inflation. Violation of rotational symmetry yields a distinct signature in the power spectrum of primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-04 Jaiseung Kim , Eiichiro Komatsu

We discuss inverse problem of detection turbulence magnetic field helical properties using radio survey observations statistics. In this paper, we present principal solution which connects magnetic helicity and correlation between Faraday…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-19 A. Volegova , R. Stepanov

The primordial magnetic field (PMF) can strongly affect the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum and the formation of large scale structure. In this presentation, we calculate the CMB temperature anisotropies generated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dai G. Yamazaki , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Toshitaka Kajino , Grant J. Mathews

Theories for new particle and early-Universe physics abound with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone fields that arise when global symmetries are spontaneously broken. The coupling of these fields to the Chern-Simons term of electromagnetism may give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-22 Robert R. Caldwell , Vera Gluscevic , Marc Kamionkowski

We present novel type of tunable magneto-optical metasurfaces performing Faraday rotation, the sign and value of which are not fixed after the structure fabrication but can be tuned in a wide range via heating of the metasurface. We…

Cross-correlations between Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and $y$-spectral distortions anisotropies have been previously proposed as a way to measure the local bispectrum parameter $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}$ in a range of scales…

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We calculate the number density, energy density, transverse pressure, longitudinal pressure, and magnetization of an ensemble of spin one-half particles in the presence of a homogenous background magnetic field. The magnetic field direction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-27 Michael Strickland , Veronica Dexheimer , Debora P. Menezes

Synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation at radio frequencies of 0.2-10 GHz are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of cosmic magnetic fields. The observational results are reviewed for spiral, barred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Rainer Beck

One of the crucial aspects of density perturbations that are produced by the standard inflation scenario is that they are Gaussian where seeds produced by topological defects tend to be non-Gaussian. The three point correlation function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Xiaochun Luo , D. N. Schramm