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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 Abelian Born-Infeld classical non-linear electrodynamic has been used to investigate the electric and magnetostatic fields generated by a point-like electrical charge at rest in an inertial frame. The results show a rich internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. O. Vellozo , Jose A. Helayel-Neto , A. W. Smith , L. P. G. De Assis

We propose a mechanism for the generation of a magnetic field in the early universe during the QCD crossover assuming that dark matter is made of axions. Thermoelectric fields arise at pressure gradients in the primordial plasma due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Francesco Miniati , Gianluca Gregori , Brian Reville , Subir Sarkar

Motivated by the problem of the formation of active regions from a deep-seated solar magnetic field, we consider the nonlinear three-dimensional evolution of magnetic buoyancy instabilities resulting from a smoothly stratified horizontal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evy Kersale , David W. Hughes , Steven M. Tobias

These lectures address the dynamics of phase ordering out of equilibrium in condensed matter and in quantum field theory in cosmological settings, emphasizing their similarities and differences. In condensed matter we describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman

We consider the generation and evolution of magnetic field in a primordial plasma at temperature T < 1 MeV in presence of asymmetric neutrino background i.e. the number densities of right- handed and left-handed neutrinos are not same.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-31 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Manu George

We give an improved estimate of primordial magnetic fields generated during cosmological first order phase transitions. We examine the charge distribution at the nucleated bubble wall and its dynamics. We consider instabilities on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Guenter Sigl , Angela Olinto , Karsten Jedamzik

Primordial magnetic fields seem to be a generic relic of phase transitions in the early universe. We consider a primordial electromagnetic field formed as a result of a second-order phase transition, and show that it is stable to thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. P. Martin , A. C. Davis

There are at present more then 30 theories about the origin of cosmic magnetic fields at galactic and intergalactic scales. Most of them rely on concepts of elementary particle physics, like phase transitions in the early Universe, string…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Battaner , H. Lesch

We propose a novel mechanism to generate primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) strong enough to explain the observed cosmic magnetic fields. We employ a scalar field charged under U(1) gauge symmetry with a non-trivial VEV to provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Ganz , Chunshan Lin , Mian Zhu

This paper concerns the generation and evolution of the cosmological (large-scale $\sim Mpc$) magnetic fields in an inflationary universe. The universe during inflation is represented by de Sitter space-time. We started with the Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zuxiang Dai

A generation of magnetic fields from cosmological density perturbations is investigated. In the primordial plasma before cosmological recombination, all of the materials except dark matter in the universe exist in the form of photons,…

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in inflationary cosmology. We consider the violation of the conformal invariance of the Maxwell field by dilatonic as well as non-minimal gravitational couplings. We derive a general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Misao Sasaki

I review some of the mechanisms through which primordial magnetic fields may be created in the electroweak phase transition. I show that no magnetic fields are produced initially from two-bubble collisions in a first-order transition. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Ola Tornkvist

A primordial magnetic field may be generated during an inflationary period if conformal invariance is broken. We reexamine and generalize previous results about the magnetic field produced by couplings of the form $R^n…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. D. Mazzitelli , F. M. Spedalieri

We derive the equations of motion for electroweak MSSM with a right-handed Stop, from which we derive the equations for the electromagnetic field that arises from bubble nucleation and collisions during the first order electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-08-01 Ernest M. Henley , Mikkel B. Johnson , Leonard S. Kisslinger

Cosmological phase transitions accompanied by some kind of symmetry breaking would cause the creation of topological defects and the resulting production of primordial magnetic field. Moreover, such a procedure inevitably affects the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Michiyasu Nagasawa

A new magnetic field generation mechanism in electrostatic shocks is found, which can produce fields with magnetic energy density as high as 0.01 of the kinetic energy density of the flows on time scales $ \tilde \, 10^4 \,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Stockem , T. Grismayer , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

It is demonstrated that strong magnetic fields are produced from a zero initial magnetic field during the pregalactic era, when galaxies are first forming. Their development proceeds in three phases. In the first phase, weak magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Russell M. Kulsrud , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Dongsu Ryu