The present invention is intended to increase the critical current density of a wire rod having a shape with good symmetry such as a round wire or a square wire by making use of mechanical milling method. The production method of the present invention for the MgB.sub.2 superconducting wire rod comprises a mixing process of preparing a powder by adding a solid organic compound to a magnesium powder and a boron powder and then applying an impact to the powder to prepare a mixture of the powder in which boron particles are dispersed inside magnesium particles, a filling process of filling a metal tube with the mixture, an elongation process of elongating the metal tube filled with the mixture and a heat treatment process of heat-treating the metal tube to synthesize MgB.sub.2.

Systems and methods for superconducting magnets are disclosed, such systems and methods comprising a primary coil and short-circuited secondary coil. The secondary coil can be made from a stack of superconducting tapes having longitudinal cuts forming closed superconductor loops without splices. The primary coil is used to pump the current into the secondary coil where it circulates continuously generating a permanent magnetic field.

Disclosed is a conduction-cooled magnetic flux pump, comprising a refrigerator, a cooling capacity conducting part, a cooling capacity conducting plate, a high-temperature superconducting coil, a high-temperature superconducting tape, an L-shaped machined part, a dynamic sealing device, a motor, a rotating shaft, a bow-shaped epoxy resin machined part, a permanent magnet rotor disk, and a permanent magnet. The cooling capacity conducting plate is connected to the refrigerator, the high-temperature superconducting coil is installed on the cooling capacity conducting plate, the high-temperature superconducting tape is fixed to the cooling capacity conducting plate by the L-shaped machined part. An output end of the motor is connected to one end of the rotating shaft through the dynamic sealing device, the other end of the rotating shaft is rotationally connected to the bow-shaped epoxy resin machined part. The permanent magnet rotor disk is installed on the rotating shaft and rotates along with the rotating shaft.

A high-temperature superconducting flux pump system comprises a flux pump body, a superconducting load, and a stator group. A double-pancake coil group comprises at least one double-pancake coil. The stator group comprises at least one stator. The flux pump body has an air gap for receiving the stator group. The superconducting load and the stator group are connected to form a closed circuit. The high-temperature superconducting flux pump system has a simpler structure, solves the problem of low charging rate of magnets, and greatly reduces the power cost without changing the magnet structure and winding cost.

A superconducting current pump arranged to cause a DC electrical current to flow through a superconducting circuit accommodated within a cryogenic enclosure of a cryostat comprises a rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure and a stator within the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and stator separated by a gap through which passes a thermally insulating wall of the cryogenic enclosure, the rotor and the stator comprising at least in part a ferromagnetic material to concentrate magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit across the gap between the rotor and the stator and through the wall, so that movement of the rotor external to the cryogenic enclosure relative to the stator within the cryogenic enclosure induces a DC transport current to flow around the superconducting circuit within the cryogenic enclosure. There is no coupling between a drive motor external to the cryogenic enclosure and an internal rotor which may introduce a path for heat leakage into the cryostat, in turn increasing the heat load and thus increasing the cooling power required to maintain the cold components within the cryogenic enclosure at the low operating temperature required.

Systems and methods for superconducting magnets are disclosed, such systems and methods comprising a primary coil and short-circuited secondary coil. The secondary coil can be made from a stack of superconducting tapes having longitudinal cuts forming closed superconductor loops without splices. The primary coil is used to pump the current into the secondary coil where it circulates continuously generating a permanent magnetic field.

A method for charging a superconductor bulk magnet includes: step a) charging the magnet charger system so as to generate a first magnetic field in the sample volume, the superconductor bulk magnet having a temperature T>T.sub.c (300); step b) cooling the superconductor bulk magnet to a temperature T<T.sub.c (400); step c) discharging the magnet charger system, which inductively charges the superconductor bulk magnet, such that the superconductor bulk magnet traps a second magnetic field in the sample volume (500). In step a), the field adjustment unit is set such that the first magnetic field generated by the magnet charger system in the sample volume includes a homogeneous magnetic field component and at least one non-homogeneous magnetic field component (300). The non-homogeneous field component is chosen so that the second magnetic field of step c) has a higher homogeneity than the first magnetic field of step a) in the sample volume.