Chiral fermion asymmetry in high-energy plasma simulations

DOI10.1080/03091929.2019.1591393zbMATH Open1482.76153arXiv1808.06624OpenAlexW2888317318WikidataQ114640061 ScholiaQ114640061MaRDI QIDQ5065697FDOQ5065697

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Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a quantum relativistic effect that describes the appearance of an additional electric current along a magnetic field. It is caused by an asymmetry between the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, which can be maintained at high energies when the chirality flipping rate can be neglected, for example in the early Universe. The inclusion of the CME in the Maxwell equations leads to a modified set of MHD equations. We discuss how the CME is implemented in the PENCIL CODE. The CME plays a key role in the evolution of magnetic fields since it results in a dynamo effect associated with an additional term in the induction equation. This term is formally similar to the $alpha$ effect in classical mean-field MHD. However, the chiral dynamo can operate without turbulence and is associated with small spatial scales that can be, in the case of the early Universe, orders of magnitude below the Hubble radius. A chiral $alph{a}_{m}u$ effect has also been identified in mean-field theory. It occurs in the presence of turbulence but is not related to kinetic helicity. Depending on the plasma parameters, chiral dynamo instabilities can amplify magnetic fields over many orders of magnitude. These instabilities can affect the propagation of MHD waves, which is demonstrated by our DNS. We also study the coupling between the evolution of the chiral chemical potential and the ordinary chemical potential, which is proportional to the sum of the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions. An important consequence of this coupling is the emergence of chiral magnetic waves (CMWs). We confirm numerically that linear CMWs and MHD waves are not interacting. Our simulations suggest that the chemical potential has only a minor effect on the non-linear evolution of the chiral dynamo.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06624

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationsturbulencechiral magnetic effectMHD dynamosrelativistic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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• Introduction
• Dynamo chiral plasma instabilities from charges and oscillations driven by torsion fluctuations
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• Self-exciting fluid dynamos
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