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The growth of chiral magnetic instability in a large-scale magnetic field

2019/02/28 by Yasufumi Kojima, Yuri Miura, Kojima, Yasufumi +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1902.10888

openalex publication_date 2019/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric current along magnetic field. We investigate effects of plasma motion on the instability in terms of linearized perturbation theory. A magnetic field can inhibit magnetohydrodynamic waves to a remarkable degree and thereby affects the instability mode. We also found that the unstable mode is consisted of coupling between Alfven and one of magneto-acoustic waves. Therefore, the propagation of a mixed Alfven wave driven by magnetic tension is very important. The direction of unperturbed magnetic field favors the wave propagation of the instability mode, when Alfven speed exceeds sound speed.

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