The Tayler instability at low magnetic Prandtl numbers: between chiral symmetry breaking and helicity oscillations

The Tayler instability is a kink-type, current driven instability that plays an important role in plasma physics but might also be relevant in liquid metal applications with high electrical currents. In the framework of the Tayler–Spruit dynamo model of stellar magnetic field generation (Spruit 2002...

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Published in:	New Journal of Physics
Main Authors:	Norbert Weber, Vladimir Galindo, Frank Stefani, Tom Weier
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Subjects:	Tayler instability chiral symmetry breaking helicity oscillation Tayler–Spruit dynamo
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113013