Nonlinear perpendicular diffusion in strong turbulent electromagnetic fields

Electromagnetic Shocks in Strong Magnetic Fields

The nonlinear properties of electromagnetic waves traveling through a magnetized vacuum is of particular interest in the study of neutron stars. Heisenberg and Euler [1] and Weisskopf [2] first derived nonlinear corrections to the Maxwell equations of the electromagnetic field. Lutzky and Toll [3] and Zheleznyakov and Fabrikant [4] applied the weak-field expansion to show that shock waves can d...

Vacuum birefringence in strong inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields

Diffusion Processes in Turbulent Magnetic Fields

We study of the effect of turbulence on diffusion processes within magnetized medium. While we exemplify our treatment with heat transfer processes, our results are quite general and are applicable to different processes, e.g. diffusion of heavy elements. Our treatment is also applicable to describing the diffusion of cosmic rays arising from magnetic field wandering. In particular, we find tha...

Disoriented Chiral Condensate and Strong Electromagnetic Fields

We discuss the effect of strong electromagnetic fields on chiral orientation in the framework of the linear σ model. Based on lessons we learn from computation of the effective potential at one loop, we argue that the chiral U(1) anomaly dominates chiral disorientation driven by electromagnetism. We show that the anomaly effect induces a quasi-instantaneous “kick” to field configurations along ...

Parametrically shielding electromagnetic fields by nonlinear metamaterials.

An analytical theory is developed for parametric interactions in metamaterial multilayer structures with simultaneous nonlinear electronic and magnetic responses and with a near-zero refractive index. We demonstrate theoretically that electromagnetic fields of certain frequencies can be parametrically shielded by a nonlinear left-handed material slab, where the permittivity and permeability are...