Magnetic monopoles produced by first-order phase transition
Abstract
We present the first 3D lattice simulations of magnetic monopole production from a first-order phase transition, using the Press-Ryden-Spergel method, capturing the subsequent annihilation stage and the entry into the scaling regime in an expanding universe. We establish the quantitative relationship between the initial bubble number and the residual monopole abundance, and calculate the magnetic field and gravitational wave power spectra sourced by monopole dynamics. Crucially, we find that the magnetic field spectrum displays a steep k−5 decline beyond the monopole size wM, whereas the peak of the gravitational wave spectrum aligns with the scale of the mean monopole separation dM, governed by k3 and k−3 scalings on the low- and high-wavenumber sides of the peak, respectively. However, since the resulting magnetic field strength is excluded by blazar observations, magnetic monopoles cannot be the origin of primordial cosmic magnetic fields. Finally, we determine the allowed monopole mass under the constraints of the Parker bound (mM≲2.18×1011 GeV) and dark matter abundance (mM≲1.58×1012 GeV).
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BibTeX
@misc{di2026magnetic,
title = {{Magnetic monopoles produced by first-order phase transition}},
author = {Yuefeng Di and Ligong Bian and Rong-Gen Cai},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.29349},
eprint = {2610.29349},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29349},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Magnetic monopoles produced by first-order phase transition
AU - Yuefeng Di
AU - Ligong Bian
AU - Rong-Gen Cai
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/21
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.29349
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29349
AB - We present the first 3D lattice simulations of magnetic monopole production from a first-order phase transition, using the Press-Ryden-Spergel method, capturing the subsequent annihilation stage and the entry into the scaling regime in an expanding universe. We establish the quantitative relationship between the initial bubble number and the residual monopole abundance, and calculate the magnetic field and gravitational wave power spectra sourced by monopole dynamics. Crucially, we find that the magnetic field spectrum displays a steep k^−5 decline beyond the monopole size w_M, whereas the peak of the gravitational wave spectrum aligns with the scale of the mean monopole separation d_M, governed by k^3 and k^−3 scalings on the low- and high-wavenumber sides of the peak, respectively. However, since the resulting magnetic field strength is excluded by blazar observations, magnetic monopoles cannot be the origin of primordial cosmic magnetic fields. Finally, we determine the allowed monopole mass under the constraints of the Parker bound (m_M≲2.18×10^11 GeV) and dark matter abundance (m_M≲1.58×10^12 GeV).
ER -