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Inverse cascade from helical and non-helical decaying columnar magnetic fields
KTH, Centres, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA. Stockholm Univ, Hannes Alfvens vag 12, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, Dept Astron, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden; Carnegie Mellon Univ, McWilliams Ctr Cosmol, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA; Carnegie Mellon Univ, Dept Phys, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA; Ilia State Univ, Sch Nat Sci & Med, 3-5 Cholokashvili Ave, Tbilisi 0194, Georgia.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7304-021X
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Tsung Dao Lee Inst, Shanghai 201210, Peoples R China; Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Tsung Dao Lee Inst, Shanghai 201210, Peoples R China.
2025 (English)In: Journal of Plasma Physics, ISSN 0022-3778, E-ISSN 1469-7807, Vol. 91, no 4, article id E113Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Powerful lasers may be used in the future to produce magnetic fields that would allow us to study turbulent magnetohydrodynamic inverse cascade behaviour. This has so far only been seen in numerical simulations. In the laboratory, however, the produced fields may be highly anisotropic. Here, we present corresponding simulations to show that, during the turbulent decay, such a magnetic field undergoes spontaneous isotropisation. As a consequence, we find the decay dynamics to be similar to that in isotropic turbulence. We also find that an initially pointwise non-helical magnetic field is unstable and develops magnetic helicity fluctuations that can be quantified by the Hosking integral. It is a conserved quantity that characterises magnetic helicity fluctuations and governs the turbulent decay when the mean magnetic helicity vanishes. As in earlier work, the ratio of the magnetic decay time to the Alfv & eacute;n time is found to be approximately $50$ in the helical and non-helical cases. At intermediate times, the ratio can even reach a hundred. This ratio determines the endpoints of cosmological magnetic field evolution.

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Cambridge University Press (CUP) , 2025. Vol. 91, no 4, article id E113
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astrophysical plasmas
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-372957DOI: 10.1017/S0022377825100664ISI: 001541118800001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105012521303OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-372957DiVA, id: diva2:2014093
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