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The origin of our universe's cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery. In this study, we consider whether these magnetic fields could have been generated in the early universe by a population of charged, spinning primordial black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Dan Hooper , Aurora Ireland , Gordan Krnjaic

It is shown that the breaking of the conformal invariance in quantum electrodynamics due to the trace anomaly results in the generation of long wave electromagnetic fields during inflationary stage of the universe evolution. If the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Dolgov Randall

We investigate if the topology of pure gauge fields in the electroweak vacuum can play a role in classical dynamics at the electroweak phase transition. Our numerical analysis shows that magnetic fields are produced if the initial vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-19 Yiyang Zhang , Francesc Ferrer , Tanmay Vachaspati

We consider the process of magnetogenesis in the context of nonsingular bounce cosmology. We show that large primordial magnetic fields can be generated during contraction without encountering strong coupling and backreaction issues. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Peng Qian , Yi-Fu Cai , Damien A. Easson , Zong-Kuan Guo

The origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe remains one of the outstanding questions yet to be answered by modern cosmology and also one of only a handful of problems where the need of a larger number of degrees of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Gabriella Piccinelli , Alejandro Ayala

We study the generation of intergalactic magnetic fields in two models for first-order phase transitions in the early Universe that have been studied previously in connection with the generation of gravitational waves (GWs): the Standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen , Alastair Wickens

It is argued that large scale cosmic magnetic field could be generated in the primeval plasma slightly before hydrogen recombination. Non-zero vorticity, necessary for that, might be created by the photon diffusion in the second order in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Berezhiani , A. D. Dolgov

Weak magnetic fields must have existed in the early Universe, as they were sourced by the cross product of electron density and temperature gradients through the Biermann-battery mechanism. In this paper we calculate the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Nanoom Lee , Yacine Ali-Haimoud

We show that the first structures that form in the universe should spontaneously generate magnetic fields. No primordial seed field is required for this "first dynamo". Although the first dynamo starts with kinetic plasma instabilities, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-08 Andrei Gruzinov

The broken-symmetry electroweak vacuum is destabilized in the presence of a magnetic field stronger than a critical value. Such magnetic field may be generated in the phase transition and restore the symmetry inside the bubbles. A numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Fiore , A. Tiesi , L. Masperi , A. Megevand

Magnetic fields in the universe potentially serve as a messenger of primordial physics. The observationally suggested intergalactic magnetic fields may be a relic of helical primordial $\mathrm{U}(1)_Y$ magnetic fields, which may also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Yuta Hamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Fumio Uchida

In this paper, we investigate the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe during the first-order electroweak phase transition. We first study the generation of the helical magnetic field in the framework of the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-01 Hui Liu , Renhui Qin , Ligong Bian

Intergalactic magnetic fields are assumed to have been spontaneously generated at the reheating stage of the early Universe, due to vacuum polarization of non-Abelian gauge fields at high temperature. The fact that the screening mass of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 E. Elizalde , V. Skalozub

The origin and maintenance of coherent magnetic fields in the Universe is reviewed with an emphasis on the possible challenges that arise in their theoretical understanding. We begin with the interesting possibility that magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-12 Kandaswamy Subramanian

The electroweak phase transition in the magnetic and hypermagnetic fields is studied in the Standard Model on the base of investigation of symmetry behaviour within the consistent effective potential of the scalar and magnetic fields at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Skalozub , V. Demchik

Wickramasinghe et al. (2014) and Briggs et al. (2015) have proposed that the strong magnetic fields observed in some single white dwarfs (MWDs) are formed by a dynamo driven by differential rotation when two stars, the more massive one with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 G. Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , C. A. Tout , D. T. Wickramasinghe

We propose that strong magnetic fields should be generated at shock waves associated with formation of galaxies or clusters of galaxies by the Weibel instability, an instability in collisionless plasmas. The strength of the magnetic fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yutaka Fujita , Tsunehiko N. Kato

We characterize magnetic fields produced during electroweak symmetry breaking by non-dynamical numerical simulations based on the Kibble mechanism. The generated magnetic fields were thought to have an energy spectrum $\propto k^3$ for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tanmay Vachaspati , Axel Brandenburg

A variety of observations suggest that magnetic fields are present in all galaxies and galaxy clusters. These fields are characterized by a modest strength (10^{-7}-10^{-5} G) and huge spatial scale (~Mpc). It is generally assumed that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence M. Widrow

The origin of large scale cosmological magnetic fields remains a mystery, despite the continuous efforts devoted to that problem. We present a new model of magnetic field generation, based on local charge separation provided by an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Mathieu Langer , Jean-Loup Puget , Nabila Aghanim