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Chapter 703 Flexible Physics Report

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun came to Qingning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory ten times and eight times a month. Usually, the supervisor Harold, the deputy director Ling Shaotang, and the assistant Gan Peixuan were responsible for the daily affairs of the laboratory.

Ling Shaotang is an arrogant person, but Harold has been with a quasi-Nobel Prize-winning physicist like Professor Coppett for many years, and his quality in all aspects is not inferior to him, and his experience in quantum computing is extremely rich. Coupled with his simple and bold personality, Ling Shaotang treated him differently.

And Gan Peixuan is his direct junior sister, so she will naturally give way.After the three of them got used to each other in terms of language and personality, the team they set up seemed to be pretty good, and they were able to cooperate sincerely.

Harold has a solid theoretical foundation and rich experimental experience. Ling Shaotang is talented and has a strong sense of innovation. Gan Peixuan has a good professional level and is meticulous in her work. And Ning Qingyun provided a steady stream of experimental data.

But at this time, in the Quantum Computing Laboratory of Lime Technology, Harold, Ling Shaotang, and Gan Peixuan all looked solemn, and the three pairs of eyes were fixed on the computer monitor screen.

A webpage in English is opening on it, the title is "Professor John Krause's team at the University of California recently made a new breakthrough in quantum computing!" "

This is a news report, reporting that Professor John Krause of the University of California led a team to solve the "coherence time" problem of qubits by using quantum entanglement theory and the characteristics of nitrogen holes naturally present in synthetic diamonds. Room temperature quantum computing has been preliminarily realized in the laboratory.

As we all know, the superposition state combination of qubits is the key. It can represent data such as 01, 10, 11 and 00, which is far better than conventional computers that can only represent the states of 1 and 0.However, the "coherence time" in which qubits maintain a specific superposition state is very short, and once the "coherence time" is exceeded, quantum calculation errors will occur.

Now Professor John Krause has solved the problem of "too short coherence time" caused by the low resolution of single quantum operation and entanglement operation, that is, the criterion of "long coherence" can be satisfied.

The operation of quantum computers needs to fully meet the "DiVincenzo criterion", that is, scalability, initialization, measurement, universal gates and long-term coherence. From this press release, except for "scalability" that has not been resolved, the other four criteria are basically satisfied.

The only downside is that Professor John Krause's team can only achieve quantum computing with 5 qubits, and there are serious shortcomings in scalability. After all, if you want to put it into use, you need at least 64 qubits.

But Harold and the other three knew in their hearts that the world's top quantum computing team led by Professor John Krause would definitely focus on attacking this "scalability" principle problem, but no one knew what they were doing. Will it be resolved in a month or a year.

Ling Shaotang's always calm face was full of seriousness, he frowned and said: "Harold, it's no wonder that Professor Krause was able to drive you so badly before. The principle of long-term coherence, it has only been less than four months? It was actually solved, and the speed is amazing."

Harold was also a little bit hit. If it wasn't for the aggressiveness of Professor Krause's team, how could his mentor Professor Koppet be in a mess and constantly speed up his progress and work overtime every day, which finally led to his physical condition breaking through the critical point? Point directly collapsed?

Harold said unwillingly: "They have been researching this direction for almost five years. My teacher only started to study it four years ago. Later, because of two accidents, all previous efforts were wasted. Later, with the help of Professor Qin and Professor Ning, he left. On the fast track. Our direction is definitely correct, but the time is too short, I don’t know if we can complete the theoretical system of topological quantum before Professor Krause.”

Professor Krause's team is the world's top team that has been cooperating for many years, and their team has only been formed for less than three months, and many newly recruited people do not have a deep understanding of quantum measurement, and their experience in experimental operations is even worse. Lacking, if not for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's incredible mathematical modeling ability, they have repeatedly achieved detour acceleration, and minimized the probability of the team's detours, Harold would not even see any hope of overtaking success.

Now, the team of Professor John Krause can almost be said to be sure of success. On the contrary, they have not even made a breakthrough in the most critical "synthesis of the most ideal Majorana fermion carrier".

Ling Shaotang and Gan Peixuan both clenched their fists. They were equally unwilling and helpless. Given another half a year, they would have the absolute confidence to solve this key issue under the leadership of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, but what they lack now is It's time.

Gan Peixuan took a deep breath, clapped her hands and said, "Okay, let's cheer up. Professor Qin and Professor Ning haven't come to the laboratory for the past two weeks. I heard that they are trying their best to conquer the 'ideal Majorana fermion carrier'." We can't hold them back due to the difficulty of synthesizing them. It's better to do one or two more experiments, maybe the results of the experiment can give them more ideas and inspiration. Besides, hasn't Professor Qin already said, Our technical route is different from that of Professor John Krause's team. Ours is better and easier to promote. Even if they take the lead in the end, it is still unknown who will die! In terms of cost control and industrial production, our technical route At least beat them by two chips!"

Harold also forced a smile: "Yes, it's useless to think about it. Only the three of us know about it, and other researchers should not know about it. Remember it."

He was afraid of breaking everyone's confidence.Although they also have confidence in the research direction of their research group, if Professor John Krause's team really takes the lead, the honor of "the world's first to solve the problem of topological quantum communication" will fall to others However, if one's own side wants to catch up from behind in terms of reputation and influence, it will have to pay dozens of times of effort and sweat to be able to do so.

Just then, the office phone in the lab rang.

Gan Peixuan glanced at the caller ID, it was Ning Qingyun calling, she hurriedly picked up the phone: "Professor Ning, hello, I'm Gan Peixuan."

She was going to be Ning Qingyun's doctoral student next year, but she didn't dare to let Ning Qingyun call her "Sister Gan" anymore, and she also changed the address of Ning Qingyun from "Qingyun" to "Professor Ning".

Ning Qingyun's name for her also changed under her repeated "applications".

At this time, Ning Qingyun's soft and beautiful girlish voice came from the phone: "Peixuan, I sent the latest experimental plan to the encrypted email address of the laboratory just now, please complete the experiment as soon as possible and verify the results. Me and Qin Ke will continue to study the precise regulation of Majorana's zero-energy mode weaving operation in the next few days, so he won't come to the laboratory, and you will inform us as soon as you have the experimental results."

"Understood, we will deal with it right away." Gan Peixuan hung up the phone, only to think of one thing, to study the precise control of Majorana's zero-energy-mode weaving operation?Isn't that the step to be performed after the most ideal Majorana fermion carrier has been synthesized?

Is it...

A thought flashed through her mind, her heart beat faster, she quickly sat down on the confidential computer, opened her e-mail, and she saw an encrypted e-mail from Ning Qingyun.

Enter the password to open the attachment of the email, and the title of the document is "Synthetic Method and Crystal Structure of the Most Ideal Majorana Fermion Carrier"!
"Assistant Gan, what's the matter?" Seeing Gan Peixuan's eyes widen with a stunned expression, Harold and Ling Shaotang next to him couldn't help but leaned over to look at the screen.

The next moment, both of them were stunned at the same time. After a while, Harold swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, and said: "This...does this mean that the two professors have conquered the ideal horse?" The key puzzle of Iorana fermion carriers?"

Ling Shaotang couldn't help but snatched the mouse, and quickly pulled the scroll bar. Sure enough, he saw that there were detailed synthetic components and synthetic methods of superconducting materials, including the crystal structure and atomic force, bond length, and superconductivity of ideal superconducting materials after synthesis. , superhardness, vibration spectrum, phase transition and phase diagram and other detailed properties have been deduced.

Looking at the astonishingly perfect and complex crystal structure, Ling Shaotang couldn't take his eyes off at all.With his natural keen intuition for superconducting materials, he is almost 100% sure that this is the answer they are looking for - the most ideal Majorana fermion carrier!

Ling Shaotang's voice was trembling with excitement: "It's it...it must be it! Professor Qin and Professor Ning are so powerful! They actually succeeded in deducing it through mathematical modeling! I'm really convinced by them!"

Harold was also extremely excited, this is a corner of life!With this most ideal Majorana fermion carrier, the research progress of the Quantum Computing Laboratory team of Lime Technology has even slightly surpassed the team of Professor John Krause!

Next, as long as the precise regulation of the majorana zero-energy mode weaving operation is realized, it can be applied to topological quantum computing!
At this moment, Harold was very grateful that he came to Xia Guo, and followed Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to continue the research on this subject!
Maybe, what Professor Coppette failed to accomplish, these two professors who are too young, can really do it!

Harold suppressed the excitement in his heart, and grabbed Ling Shaotang: "Let's go, we will call everyone to do experiments to verify! As long as the verification is successful, we are only one step away from the final goal! Hahaha——! "

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The Lime Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory here is rejoicing, and everyone is full of energy, but far away in the United States, the editor-in-chief of "Physics Reports (PR)" editor-in-chief Robinson Vergil is having a headache.

In the morning, Grote, the editor-in-charge, handed over a paper titled "The Application of NS Equation in Urban Planning and Air Pollution Prevention and Control". Especially now that environmentalism is prevalent in the West, I don’t know how many cities are having a headache to improve the air quality of the city. It is estimated that once this paper is published, all the big cities in the world will rush to quote this paper and discuss in depth the methods of urban air pollution prevention and control. And even the secondary planning of the city.

The problem is... this paper is a freelance submission!

PR has never accepted free submissions, because the goal of PR is "the paper should play an important leading and guiding role in the development of a specific field", and the editorial department of the journal often invites the papers that have great influence in related fields after the topic is selected. Famous, high-level scholars write papers.

Now this paper meets the requirements in terms of standards, and it will definitely have an important inspiration and leading role in the physical application of air pollution, but now I don’t want to do this topic in PR, and this year’s plan does not include it. theme.

"Qin Ke... Ning Qingyun..." Robinson Virgil looked at the name in the author column and rubbed his temple again with a headache.

If it is an ordinary unknown author, even if the paper is so well written, he will not make an exception for it, but these two great gods have become too famous recently. "Applied Physics Letters" has published a paper on fluid mechanics that has attracted great attention. Not to mention, the paper "Computational Seed Science" published in "Cell" recently caused a shock and sensation in the biological circles all over the world. The sales volume of "Cell" has increased by more than ten times, which has also caused the entire international academic circle to discuss these two names.

I heard that the "Computational Seed Science Tutorial (English Version)" written by these two great masters just went on sale in various countries around the world two days ago, and it caused a rush. The first issue of 600 million copies of the coated paper version was sold out in just two hours Yes, you must know that the price of each book is very high, and the retail price in the United States has reached more than 150 US dollars!Even the electronic version, which costs as much as $120 and is available on Kindle, has sold nearly [-] million copies!
This is not the most exaggerated. It is said that these two great gods have recently developed a magical crop called "Perfect Desert Sweet Potato", which can be planted in the edge of the desert and can transform the desert into a green space. Countries that have been harmed have contacted Xia Guo to understand the matter and seek technical support, which greatly increased Xia Guo's voice in the world.

All of the above have made these two Xia Guo young scholars who are mathematicians, physicists, and biologists become the most concerned "darlings" in the world.

Although "Physical Reports (PR)" is still ranked as one of the top four international physics journals, its ranking has dropped to fourth, and it may be overwhelmed by "Reviews of Modern Physics" (Reviews of Modern Physics), which ranks fifth and sixth at any time. Modern Physics)" and "Physical Review A (Physical Review A)" squeezed out of the altar.

Under such circumstances, publishing the excellent papers written by Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun as soon as possible is undoubtedly a good opportunity to take advantage of this upsurge to increase the influence of "Physical Reports (PR)"...

Robinson Virgil finally made up his mind and dialed the number of Mr. Wells, the editor-in-chief who was always known for his stubbornness.

The theme of each issue of the journal is determined in advance to facilitate the appointment of manuscripts. To change the plan now, the authority of the editor-in-chief of Robinson Vergil is not enough, and the editor-in-chief Mr. Wells must be nodded.

As for how to persuade Mr. Wells, who has always been stubborn, the editor-in-chief Fugil still has some ideas. For example, he can send Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun an email inviting them to write articles—after all, PR has a rule of not accepting freelance contributions. The rules cannot be broken, but if you are flexible, you can receive the manuscript first and then send out the invitation email to make up the process. It is barely in compliance with the rules, right?
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