High magnetic field research: Overview of facilities and science and technology opportunities (invited) (abstract)

A number of specialized facilities have been developed or are under development throughout the world to support research at high magnetic fields in a broad range of science and technology areas. These facilities provide continuous magnetic fields up to 32–35 T and pulsed fields up to 50–70 T for tens of ms periods with fields beyond 100 T for several μs. During the last several years, new laboratories have been planned and are being developed within the United States and Japan with major expansions of facilities occurring in France, The Netherlands, and other countries. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, presently under construction in the United States, will include superconducting magnets (B≤20 T), resistive magnets (B≤25–35 T depending on bore and power), hybrid magnet (B≤45–50 T), and pulsed fields (B≤60–70 T for 100 ms, B≤50–70 T for 10–20 ms and B≤250 T for about 10 μs). These new facilities within the United States and elsewhere will expand the research opportunities at the extremes of parameter space, i.e., magnetic field, ultralow temperatures, and high pressures, for researchers in the life and condensed matter science areas. An overview of the facilities throughout the world will be presented along with a brief discussion of the science opportunities and recent results at the extremes of high magnetic field.