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For what its worth, the strongest magnets in the world are not superconducting but copper. My understanding is that the high magnetic field interferes with the

by somat 5y ago

For what its worth, the strongest magnets in the world are not superconducting but copper. My understanding is that the high magnetic field interferes with the superconducting mode. https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/dc-field/instruments-dcfield https://nationalmaglab.org/user-facilities/dc-field/instrume... Not that it has anything to do with plasma research, I just thought it an interesting fact.

sbierwagen 5y ago
Here's a fun table at which field strengths various superconductors fall out of the superconducting mode https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-critical-fields-and-coherence-lengths-for-sev-eral-type-II-superconductors-The_tbl1_273297345 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Upper-critical-fields-an... ITER uses NbTi, SPARC uses YBCO.