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Decay law of magnetic turbulence with helicity balanced by chiral fermions
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Ilia State University, Georgia; Carnegie Mellon University, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7304-021X
Number of Authors: 32023 (English)In: Physical Review Research, E-ISSN 2643-1564, Vol. 5, no 2, article id L022028Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In plasmas composed of massless electrically charged fermions, chirality can be interchanged with magnetic helicity while preserving the total chirality through the quantum chiral anomaly. The decay of turbulent energy in plasmas such as those in the early Universe and compact stars is usually controlled by certain conservation laws. In the case of zero total chirality, when the magnetic helicity density balances with the appropriately scaled chiral chemical potential to zero, the total chirality no longer determines the decay. We propose that in such a case, an adaptation to the Hosking integral, which is conserved in nonhelical magnetically dominated turbulence, controls the decay in turbulence with helicity balanced by chiral fermions. We show, using a high resolution numerical simulation, that this is indeed the case. The magnetic energy density decays and the correlation length increases with time just like in nonhelical turbulence with vanishing chiral chemical potential. But here, the magnetic helicity density is nearly maximum and shows a scaling with time t proportional to t-2/3. This is unrelated to the t-2/3 decay of magnetic energy in fully helical magnetic turbulence. The modulus of the chiral chemical potential decays in the same fashion. This is much slower than the exponential decay previously expected in theories of asymmetric baryon production from the hypermagnetic helicity decay after axion inflation.

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2023. Vol. 5, no 2, article id L022028
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-229423DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L022028ISI: 000995777100004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85162746807OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-229423DiVA, id: diva2:1860105
Available from: 2024-05-23 Created: 2024-05-23 Last updated: 2024-10-16Bibliographically approved

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