Chiral magnetovortical instability
Nuclear Theory
2023-07-14 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Fluid Dynamics
Plasma Physics
Abstract
We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to as the {\it chiral magnetovortical instability}. This instability arises from the mutual evolution of the magnetic and vortical fields. It can cause a rapid amplification of the magnetic fields by transferring the chirality of the constituent particles to the cross helicity of the plasma.
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@article{arxiv.2307.06746,
title = {Chiral magnetovortical instability},
author = {Shuai Wang and Xu-Guang Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06746},
year = {2023}
}
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