Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the Tayler instability
Abstract
The chiral symmetry breaking properties of the Tayler instability are discussed. Effective amplitude equations are determined in one case. This model has three free parameters that are determined numerically. Comparison with chiral symmetry breaking in biochemistry is made.
- Publication:
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Comparative Magnetic Minima: Characterizing Quiet Times in the Sun and Stars
- Pub Date:
- July 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921312004644
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1111.1742
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..286...65D
- Keywords:
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- Sun: magnetic fields;
- dynamo;
- magnetic helicity;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Physics - Biological Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symp 286, Comparative Magnetic Minima, C. H. Mandrini, eds