Magnetic fields produced by phase transition bubbles in the electroweak phase transition

1995/07/26 by Gordon Baym, Dietrich Bödeker, Larry McLerran · 8 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Electroweak interaction #Ferroics #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Particle physics #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum critical point #Quantum mechanics #Quantum phase transition #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Transition (genetics) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.53.662

published as Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 662-667 · Revtex, 14 pages, 3 figures appended as uuencoded postscript-file

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Abstract

The electroweak phase transition, if proceeding through nucleation and growth of bubbles, should generate large scale turbulent flow, which in turn generates magnetic turbulence and hence magnetic fields on the scale of turbulence flow. We discuss the seeding of this turbulent field by the motion of the dipole charge layers in the phase transition bubble walls, and estimate the strength of the produced fields. \textcopyright 1996 The American Physical Society.

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