RT Journal Article T1 Cosmic magnetic fields and dark energy in extended electromagnetism A1 López Maroto, Antonio A1 Beltrán Jiménez, José AB We discuss an extended version of electromagnetism in which the usual gauge fixing term is promoted into a physical contribution that introduces a new scalar state in the theory. This new state can be generated from vacuum quantum fluctuations during an inflationary era and, on super-Hubble scales, gives rise to an effective cosmological constant. The value of such a cosmological constant coincides with the one inferred from observations as long as inflation took place at the electroweak scale. On the other hand, the new state also generates an effective electric charge density on sub-Hubble scales that produces both vorticity and magnetic fields with coherent lengths as large as the present Hubble horizon. PB IOP Publishing Ltd SN 1742-6588 SN 1742-6588 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44339 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44339 LA eng NO This work has been supported by MICINN (Spain) project numbers FIS 2008- 01323 and FPA 2008-00592, CAM/UCM 910309, MEC grant BES-2006-12059 and MICINN Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK CSD2009-00064. J.B. also wishes to thank support from the Norwegian Council under the YGGDRASIL project no 195761/V11.Spanish Relativity Meeting (ERE 2010) on Gravity as a Crossroad in Physics (2010. Granada,España) NO MICINN (Spain) NO CAM/UCM NO MEC NO MICINN Consolider-Ingenio MULTIDARK NO Norwegian Council under the YGGDRASIL project DS Docta Complutense RD 9 jun 2025