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In the present work, we have studied the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves due to magnetic instability in the presence of neutrino asymmetry. The magnetic instability generates a helical magnetic field on a large scale. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-23 Arun Kumar Pandey , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jitesh R Bhatt

The creation of large scale magnetic fields is studied in an inflationary universe where electrodynamics is assumed to be nonlinear. After inflation ends electrodynamics becomes linear and thus the description of reheating and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kerstin E. Kunze

We investigate an efficient mechanism for generating magnetic fields in turbulent, collisionless plasmas. By using fully kinetic, particle-in-cell simulations of an initially non-magnetized plasma, we inspect the genesis of magnetization,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 F. Pucci , M. Viviani , F. Valentini , G. Lapenta , W. H. Matthaeus , S. Servidio

We study a nonequilibrium ferromagnetic mean-field spin model exhibiting a phase with spontaneous temporal oscillations of the magnetization, on top of the usual paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases. This behavior is obtained by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-18 Laura Guislain , Eric Bertin

We report on a first-principles numerical and theoretical study of plasma dynamo in a fully kinetic framework. By applying an external mechanical force to an initially unmagnetized plasma, we develop a self-consistent treatment of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-07 Muni Zhou , Vladimir Zhdankin , Matthew W. Kunz , Nuno F. Loureiro , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

Possible existence of the primordial magnetic fields has affected the structure formation of the universe. In this paper it is shown that the initial conditions for density perturbations with magnetic fields derived in previous works are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Kazuhiko Kojima , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The nonequilibrium responses of Ising metamagnet (layered antiferromagnet) to the propagating magnetic wave are studied by Monte Carlo simulation. Here, the spatio-temporal variations of magnetic field keeps the system away from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-11 Muktish Acharyya

Modifications of spatial distributions of dynamic magnetization corresponding to spinwave eigenmodes of magnetic squares subjected to a strong microwave excitation field have been studied experimentally and theoretically. We show that an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Mikhail Kostylev , Vladislav E. Demidov , Ulf-Hendrik Hansen , Sergej O. Demokritov

We study the possibility of generating magnetic fields during the evolution of electron, proton, and photon plasma in the pre-recombination era. We show that a small magnetic field can be generated in the second order of perturbation theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rajesh Gopal , Shiv Sethi

It has been recently proposed that the presence of a temporal electromagnetic field on cosmological scales could explain the phase of accelerated expansion that the universe is currently undergoing. The field contributes as a cosmological…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Tomi S. Koivisto , Antonio L. Maroto , David F. Mota

We have tested the ability of driven turbulence to generate magnetic field structure from a weak uniform field using three dimensional numerical simulations of incompressible turbulence. We used a pseudo-spectral code with a numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jungyeon Cho , Ethan T. Vishniac

Generation of primordial magnetic fields during inflation typically requires the breaking of conformal invariance of the Electromagnetic action. In this paper this has been achieved naturally in a higher dimensional cosmological model with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 Kumar Atmjeet , Isha Pahwa , T. R. Seshadri , Kandaswamy Subramanian

The origin of extragalactic magnetic fields is still poorly understood. Based on a dedicated suite of cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulations with the ENZO code we have performed a survey of different models that may have caused…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , C. Gheller , S. Hackstein , D. Wittor , P. M. Hinz

The transition between non resonant (Weibel-type) and resonant (whistler) instabilities is investigated numerically in plasma configurations with an ambient magnetic field of increasing amplitudes. The Vlasov-Maxwell system is solved in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 L. Palodhi , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro

The origin of the substantial magnetic fields that are found in galaxies and on even larger scales, such as in clusters of galaxies, is yet unclear. If the second-order couplings between photons and electrons are considered, then…

Magnetic fields are observed in star forming regions. However simulations of the late stages of star formation that do not include magnetic fields provide a good fit to the properties of young stars including the initial mass function (IMF)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 C. J. Nixon , J. E. Pringle

We study the evolution of phase-transition-generated cosmic magnetic fields coupled to the primeval cosmic plasma in turbulent and viscous free-streaming regimes. The evolution laws for the magnetic energy density and correlation length,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Leonardo Campanelli

Mixed-order phase transitions display a discontinuity in the order parameter like first-order transitions yet feature critical behavior like second-order transitions. Such transitions have been predicted for a broad range of equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-07 Ricard Alert , Pietro Tierno , Jaume Casademunt

We study an ensemble of strongly coupled electrons under continuous microwave irradiation interacting with a dissipative environment, a problem of relevance to the creation of highly polarized non-equilibrium states in nuclear magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-18 Alexander Karabanov , Dominic C. Rose , Walter Köckenberger , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky

It is usually assumed that when Weyl invariance is unbroken in the electromagnetic sector, the energy density of primordial magnetic fields will redshift as radiation. Here we show that primordial magnetic fields do not exhibit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Takeshi Kobayashi , Martin S. Sloth