Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Megagauss Magnetic Fields: Production & Application

This Special Issue on Megagauss Magnetic Fields serves as a focal point for the documentation of recent research achievements and advances from around the world in high magnetic field generation and utilization to produce extreme states of matter. The Megagauss Conferences began in 1965 and have provided an international venue for communication of scientific advances related to the production and use of very high magnetic fields. The most recent Megagauss Conference was held in October 2012, in Maui, Hawaii, and this Special Issue represents a selection of the topics presented. We hope you will find this Special Issue both interesting and informative.