We present the full set of power spectra of cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies due to the coupling between quintessence and pseudoscalar of electromagnetism. This coupling induces a rotation of the polarization plane of the CMB, thus resulting in a nonvanishing B mode and parity-violating TB and EB modes. Using the BOOMERANG data from the flight of 2003,...

Let X be a smooth manifold of dimension 1 + n endowed with a Lorentzian metric g. The energy tensor of a 2-form F is locally defined as Tab := − ( Fa Fbi − 1 4 F Fijgab ) . In this paper we characterize this tensor as the only 2-covariant natural tensor associated to a Lorentzian metric and a 2-form that is independent of the unit of scale and satisfies certain condition on its divergence. This...

We study a superconducting charge qubit coupled to an intensive electromagnetic field and probe changes in the resonance frequency of the formed dressed states. At large driving strengths, exceeding the qubit energy-level splitting, this reveals the well known Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference structure of a longitudinally driven two-level system. For even stronger drives, we observe a sign...

An increasing number of people worldwide complain that they have become electromagnetic hypersensitive (EHS). We conducted a questionnaire survey of EHS persons in Japan. The aim was to identify electromagnetic fields (EMF) and plausible EMF sources that caused their symptoms. Postal questionnaires were distributed via a self-help group, and 75 participants (95% women) responded. Reported major...

Cosmological phase transitions accompanied by some kind of symmetry breaking would cause the creation of topological defects and the resulting production of primordial magnetic field. Moreover, such a procedure inevitably affects the cosmic background radiation and it may be observed today. Motivated by the existence of stabilized embedded defects in the standard model of elementary interaction...

Abstract The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in dilaton electromagnetism in noncommutative inflationary cosmology taking into account the effects of the spacetime uncertainty principle motivated by string theory. We show that it is possible to generate large-scale magnetic fields with sufficient strength to account for the observed fields in galaxies and clusters of galaxie...

Grasers based on a stimulated emission of gravitational radiation by relativistic charged particle beams in external fields and on conversion of laser radiation into grav-itational one in the magnetic fields as well as detectors are discussed. It was pointed out on a scheme where the gravitational radiation is not accompanied by an useless inaccessible by a value average power of the electromag...

Anisotropic distributions of charged particles including two-stream distributions give rise to generation of either stochastic electric fields (in the form of Langmuir waves, Buneman instability) or random quasi-static magnetic fields (Weibel and filamentation instabilities) or both. These two-stream instabilities are known to play a key role in collisionless shock formation, shock-shock intera...

The use of sophisticated wireless communications devices has been increasing exponentially over the past decades, with a corresponding public perception of increase in ambient background of radio frequency (RF) or high-frequency (HF) radiation in the environment. This perception has developed into a public concern, thus requiring an engagement of public health authorities to quantify these fiel...

In the electromagnetic spectrum, structural damage to living tissues per unit of absorbed energy tends to increase with the decrease of a wavelength which is evident not only for ultraviolet and ionizing radiation but also for the infrared and visible light. By causing thermal damage after absorbing energies that would be harmless for radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (EMF), tissues are eve...