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The present work proposes a discussion on the self-energy of charged particles in the framework of nonlinear electrodynamics. We seek magnet- ically stable solutions generated by purely electric charges whose electric and magnetic fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 S. O. Vellozo , José A. Helayël-Neto , A. W. Smith , L. P. G. De Assis

We show that the decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence leads to a more rapid growth of the correlation length of a primordial magnetic field than that caused by the expansion of the Universe. As an example, we consider the magnetic fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 D. T. Son

In the pre-recombination era, cosmological density fluctuations can naturally generate magnetic fields through Thomson scatterings. In previous studies, only the magnetic field generation from the initially-adiabatic fluctuations has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Satoshi Maeda , Keitaro Takahashi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

In this contribution we will shortly review the main mechanism through which primordial magnetic fields may affect the electroweak baryogenesis. It is shown that although strong magnetic fields might enhance the strength of the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Dario Grasso

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

The origin of magnetic fields in isolated and binary white dwarfs has been investigated in a series of recent papers. One proposal is that magnetic fields are generated through an alpha-omega dynamo during common envelope evolution. Here we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Gordon Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , Christopher Tout , Dayal Wickramasinghe

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) are magnetic fields generated during the early universe. These fields are thought to be the seeds of extragalactic magnetic fields. The origin of PMFs is not well known. Further, if they are indeed sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Ganga R. Nair , V. Sreenath

The universe cools down monotonically following its expansion.This generates a sequence of phase transitions. If a second order phase transition happens during the radiation dominated era with a charged order parameter, spinodal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega

The origin of interstellar and intergalactic magnetic fields remains largely unknown. One possibility is that they are related to the primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) produced by, for instance, the phase transitions of the early Universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Yao-Yu Li , Chi Zhang , Ziwei Wang , Ming-Yang Cui , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The nature of magnetic fields in the voids of the large-scale structure of the Universe has been a multifaceted open puzzle for decades. On one hand, their origin is not clear with most of the magnetogenesis models using physics beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Deepen Garg , Ruth Durrer , Jennifer Schober

The origin of the magnetic field in galaxies is an open question in astrophysics. Several mechanisms have been proposed related, in general, with the generation of small seed fields amplified by a dynamo mechanism. In general, these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. D. Miranda , M. Opher , R. Opher

Slow magnetic field variations in stars and planets create a quasistationary electrical field which may be observed. It is supposed that the electrical field near the Earth surface may be partially connected with variation of the Earth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

We present new simulations of decaying hydromagnetic turbulence for a relativistic equation of state relevant to the early universe. We compare helical and nonhelical cases either with kinetically or magnetically dominated initial fields.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-29 Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Tanmay Vachaspati

I review a number of particle-physics models that lead to the creation of magnetic fields in the early universe and address the complex problem of evolving such primordial magnetic fields into the fields observed today. Implications for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 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

The universe is magnetized on all scales probed so far. On the largest scales, galaxies and galaxy clusters host magnetic fields at the micro Gauss level coherent on scales up to ten kpc. Recent observational evidence suggests that even the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Kandaswamy Subramanian

We study the generation of strong large scale magnetic fields in compact stars containing degenerate quark matter with unbroken chiral symmetry. The magnetic field growth is owing to the magnetic field instability driven by the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-27 Maxim Dvornikov

It is believed that in presence of some strong electromagnetic fields, called overcritical, the (Dirac) vacuum becomes unstable and decays leading to a spontaneous production of an electron-positron pair. Yet, the arguments are based mainly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikodem Szpak

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

We review the literature concerning how the cosmic magnetic fields pervading nearly all galaxies actually got started. some observational evidence involves the chemical abundance of the light elements Be and B, while another one is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Russell M. Kulsrud , Ellen G. Zweibel