Numerically evaluating matter power spectrum induced by PMFs

We performed detailed MHD simulation in the post-recombination universe to quantify how primordial magnetic fields affect density perturbations. We found that several previous studies based on analytical estimates over-estimated the matter power spectrum. In the figure below we compare the result from our simulations with previous studies.

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In the above figure we stop plotting the matter power spectrum on small scales where pre-recombination evolution becomes important. On those small scales we expect further enhancement of matter power spectrum, and this was discussed in detail in previous project

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