Particle-in-cell simulations on spontaneous thermal magnetic field fluctuations

Citation:
Particle-in-cell simulations on spontaneous thermal magnetic field fluctuations, Simões, F. J. R., Pavan J., Gaelzer R., Ziebell L. F., and Yoon P. H. , Physics of Plasmas, October, Volume 20, Number 10, (2013)

Abstract:

In this paper an electromagnetic particle code is used to investigate the spontaneous thermal emission. Specifically we perform particle-in-cell simulations employing a non-relativistic isotropic Maxwellian particle distribution to show that thermal fluctuations are related to the origin of spontaneous magnetic field fluctuation. These thermal fluctuations can become seed for further amplification mechanisms and thus be considered at the origin of the cosmological magnetic field, at microgauss levels. Our numerical results are in accordance with theoretical results presented in the literature.

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