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Jennifer Schober1, Igor Rogachevskii2,3, Axel Brandenburg3,4,5,6
1Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, EPFL, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In relativistic magnetized plasmas, asymmetry in the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, i.e., a nonzero chiral chemical potential μ_{5}, leads to an electric current along the magnetic field. This causes a chiral dynamo instability for a uniform μ_{5}, but our simulations reveal a dynamo even for fluctuating μ_{5} with zero mean. It produces magnetically dominated turbulence and generates mean magnetic fields via the magnetic α effect. Eventually, a universal scale-invariant k^{-1} spectrum of μ_{5} and a k^{-3} magnetic spectrum are formed independently of the initial condition.
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