Science at the New Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Since the beginning of 2007, the new Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden, HLD) at the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, is accepting proposals for magnet time and has hosted the first user groups. The available user coils at the HLD produce magnetic fields up to about 70 T, with 150 ms pulse length. Besides the ulti-mate goal of a pulsed magnet reaching 100 T for a timescale of 10 ms in a bore of 20 mm, further large-scale magnets (e.g. 60 T, 1 s, 40 mm) are planned. The necessary energy for the pulsed coils is provided by a world-unique 50 MJ capacitor bank. A free-electron-laser facil-ity next door allows high-brilliance radiation to be fed into the pulsed field cells of the HLD, thus making possible unique high-field magneto-optical experiments in the range 3-200 µm. Cryotechniques and different sample probes for a broad range of experimental techniques custom designed for the pulsed magnets are readily available for users. In-house research of the HLD focuses on electronic properties of strongly correlated materials at high magnetic fields. Some examples of the scientific work being carried out will be highlighted.