I am devoted to scientific research, but you want to trick me into having a love relationship?

Chapter 479: It's good, but it comes at a price

Xu Qingzhou stayed in Professor Roberts' office for a whole day, brainstorming with them, analyzing the difficulties encountered in computing, and looking for solutions.

Also, Harvard Business School.

Professor Morton had not returned from a meeting yet, so Song Yao and Kelly were the only ones in the huge office.

On this side, Kelly was pouring hot water. When she passed by Song Yao, she accidentally saw the words on the computer screen and asked, "Song, are you going to do short-selling research in hedge quantitative analysis?"

"Yes." Song Yao nodded and briefly explained her thoughts.

Kelly rested her chin on her hand and sighed enviously, "It's great to have a mathematician husband."

Husband
She and Xu Qingzhou usually don't call each other "husband" or "wife", which is cheesy.
It's good, but... it comes at a price.

Song Yao pursed her lips and sighed in her heart, Xu Qingzhou was just an old pervert.

Last time you said you didn't want any reward.

fraud.

Touch and pinch every day.
She had seen through this man a long time ago. She just wanted to see the shy expression on her face after being teased, which might be the same as her desire to ravage Xu Qingzhou who was wearing a suit.

That’s right, it’s the contrast.

Think about it, she didn't have so many weird hobbies in the past.

"Song, are you okay?"

Kelly was a little surprised. There was a hint of resentment on Song Yao's face. This emotion on her pretty face made her inexplicably more attractive.

"fine."

Song Yao shook her head and after a while she had already come to the conclusion in her heart - it was all Xu Qingzhou's fault.

The reason why she became strange was definitely due to the influence of Xu Qingzhou.

Song Yao took a deep breath and suppressed the strange feeling. She was determined to beat this guy up when she got back to vent her anger.

Professor Roberts' office.

Xu Qingzhou was calculating with his head down when he suddenly shuddered. "Strange, why do I suddenly feel a little cold on such a hot day?"

This feeling is the same as when Song Yao beat me.

"Are you cold?"

Horn asked doubtfully.

Xu Qingzhou shook his head and thought it must be an illusion, as he hadn't done anything wrong that morning.

At Harvard, the sound of high heels was heard in the office.

Professor Morton came back from the meeting.

The old professor was still the same as usual, wearing a stiff grey suit, with a serious expression, and his eyes swept around everywhere with a bit of scrutiny.

Song Yao continued to study her short-selling strategy, while Kelly took the paper to Professor Morton.

Half an hour later, Professor Morton finished reading Kelly's paper and said in a deep voice: "First optimize the data in the fourth section, and then clarify the form of adjusting the company's asset-liability structure."

Kelly wrote down what Professor Morton said.

After Kelly finished her work, Song Yao sent the report she had written during this period to Professor Morton.

Professor Morton nodded slightly: "Not bad, next we can start working on the Black-Scholes option pricing model."

"Okay." Song Yao was not surprised and was quite confident in the report she wrote.

Professor Morton pulled out the document on the table, looked at it, and continued, "As for the short-selling model, it is very complicated and very challenging for one person."

"Xu Qingzhou will be responsible for part of the calculation."

After listening to this, Professor Morton nodded again.

Song Yao is very smart, definitely the smartest among all her students, no doubt about it.

She has high hopes for this student. In the future, there will definitely be an outstanding female economist in the field of economics.

The paper Song Yao wants to write is difficult, especially the complicated calculations, but if a Fields Medal winner can help, there will be no problem.

A week passed.

library.

Xu Qingzhou was busy typing. He spent most of his time writing experimental plans this week, and occasionally took time to deal with emails and look at everyone's resumes.

In addition to those who want to join the current research group, there are also a small number of people who come here just to make themselves known, hoping that if Xu Qingzhou continues his research in the field of mathematics in the future, he will consider them.

In the past few days, he interviewed three people, but was not satisfied with any of them. Based on the principle of "better to have nothing than to have someone of poor quality", he rejected all of them.

After checking the emails, rejecting those that needed to be rejected, he turned his attention to the manuscript in front of him.

【Substrate-free niobium tin (NbSn) thin films. 】

This is the direction of this experiment.

Niobium tin (NbSn) is a high-performance superconducting material, mainly used in applications in high magnetic fields and low temperature environments.

According to Xu Qingzhou's experimental plan, he intends to use laser lift-off technology to grow a superconducting layer directly in the air without the need for a silicon substrate.

This is quite difficult and requires solving the weight, flexibility and stability problems that have always existed in superconducting technology.

The highest goal is to achieve a quantum bit coherence time of at least 500 microseconds.

Once successful and developed, it can, to a certain extent, push superconducting technology to higher magnetic fields, lower temperatures and more complex environments, and provide a revolutionary material foundation for nuclear fusion energy, quantum computing and next-generation medical devices.

Of course, this is the ideal situation, which requires synchronous development of all related fields.

Xu Qingzhou was immersed in writing the experimental plan, and on the discussion platform, it was even more lively than in the previous few days, and almost all the attention of the spectators was focused on Xu Qingzhou's recruitment.

"Have any brothers joined Xu Qingzhou's project?"

"A buddy of mine went for an interview, the requirements were very high, and he failed the interview."

"Damn it! I've worked in Professor Miles' team before, but after submitting my resume, I only received a reply saying 'Sorry, you don't meet the requirements of the research team'?!"

"Excuse me, if I go to this project someday, I will be crazy about gains and losses."

“I think we can wait. Maybe, before long, he’ll have a math program.”

"It's normal for mathematicians to switch fields and study other things. Well, as a fan, I still want to say that Xu Qingzhou's experiment was very risky."

The people who might be most depressed about Xu Qingzhou's involvement in condensed matter research are people in the mathematics field. After all, they had been looking forward to Xu Qingzhou's first project.

Southeast corner of MIT.

Two young men just entered the office and were about to change their clothes to go to the laboratory.

The two are members of James' team and had already started the formal experiment a month ago.

Their goal is to develop low microwave loss superconducting films to extend the qubit coherence time from 200μs to over 500μs, which would make possible kilobit-scale quantum processors.

Got Barnes was reading the Handshak discussion forum. He took a sip of coffee and sighed, "Xu Qingzhou's progress doesn't seem to be going so smoothly."

To a certain extent, it can be said that Xu Qingzhou is their "enemy", the kind who needs to keep track of the project progress at all times.

The young man shrugged and said, "It's obvious that people at MIT are not that stupid."

Gort Barnes shook his head, looking puzzled, and said, "He could have chosen a situation that was more favorable to him, but he chose to put himself in a funny role."

“Mathematicians are paranoid.”

The young man smiled.

Gort Barnes nodded in agreement, drank his coffee in a few gulps, and stood up. "Well, we should speed up the progress, otherwise, we might be surpassed by our own people."

"Barnes, are you telling a bad joke?"

(End of this chapter)