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

Chapter 548 This is the feeling of falling from heaven to hell
4 month 30 day.

Xu Qingzhou was still busy with the equipment list, planning to come up with at least three plans. Song Yao would not be back until May 5st.

Zero Point Technology, which Ross is in charge of, has previously established its own tax and legal team. Now, according to Xu Qingzhou's instructions, it is recruiting a team to purchase equipment.

At this time, Maxwell Laboratory in the southwest corner of the town of Princeton.

The atmosphere in the office was lively and everyone had a hint of excitement on their face.

With the support of in-situ monitoring + ML feedback system and Bayesian optimization algorithm, their experimental speed is like riding a rocket, and on this great day, they have made unprecedented progress again.

At the front of the office, Professor Maxwell, with some graying hair on his temples, leaned against the wooden table, examining the characterization test report in front of him.

Underground, the researchers chatted leisurely.

"Where are you going to play tomorrow, Price?"

"I have to go to California with my wife. Well, you know, middle-aged women can't sit still."

"My advice is that you should buy your beautiful wife a bag, then maybe she won't pester you to travel anymore."

"Then I'd rather travel."

A long while passed.

Professor Maxwell closed the test report in front of him and looked at his watch. It was 6 o'clock in the afternoon, just in time for the meeting. He looked at the empty seat on his left.

Then he moved back and landed on the thin young man: "Hey, young man, where is your Professor Rosen?"

Professor Rosen, a statistics expert, made a great contribution to the smooth progress of the experiment and he deserves to witness this important moment.

The young man named "Burton" looked at his phone and said helplessly: "I just called Professor Rosen, but no one answered."

"I guess he might have gone somewhere alone to have a drink to celebrate. We can have a meeting first and then invite him to have a drink at the cocktail party in the evening."

The speaker was one of the team leaders, Clan Xavier, an expert in condensed matter, who said with a smile.

Maxwell nodded after hearing this. It was not the first time that Professor Rosen missed a meeting, so this time was not special. Mathematicians are somewhat strange and stubborn in character.

He knocked on the table, and when he saw that the office was quiet and everyone's eyes were on him, he said, "Okay, gentlemen, save your passion for the drinking party later. After one and a half months of hard work, we have successfully achieved the Jc performance of our product to 1×3.2 A/cm, and other indicators have reached the standard. Most importantly, it is almost at the level of mass production!"

There was warm applause and cheers from everyone in the office.

Maxwell smiled faintly, "In the next month, our goal is to stabilize various performances and find new breakthroughs. Houston, your team can start applying for patents. We want to complete this project within three months."

"No problem!" A middle-aged man in a suit responded from outside the window.

The person on his right twirled the pen in his hand, took over the conversation, and said with a smile: "We should probably thank that friend far away at MIT. If it weren't for him, we might still be doing the hydrofluoric acid etching + nitriding treatment slowly."

"If you put it that way, we should really invite Professor Xu to taste the celebratory wine tonight."

The sound of everyone laughing filled the office.

This is actually not wrong. If Xu Qingzhou hadn't suddenly appeared and pointed a gun at everyone's head, they probably wouldn't have been able to complete this seemingly impossible task.

Maxwell did not comment and continued, "We have created a great miracle in just one month. Everyone has made great contributions here. Well, if I keep nagging, everyone will think I am too long-winded. We will talk about work after the holiday. The most important thing tonight is the cocktail party."

"You won't come home until you're drunk!"

Just as someone blew a whistle, Professor Rosen walked in with a stack of documents.

Moreover, his expression was out of tune with the people present.

"Everyone, although I don't want to disturb you, the celebration party may have to be postponed." Two minutes later, the office was dead silent, in stark contrast to the liveliness just now. It was eerily quiet.

Maxwell, the person in charge, had a calm expression.

Clan Xavier stared at the report in his hand: "No, absolutely impossible!"

In March, it was still 3×2.5 A/cm.

It’s only April now, and Jc’s performance has increased by 4%, which is simply impossible to achieve.

As we all know, once it reaches the commercial level, it is harder than climbing to the sky to improve the performance of superconducting films. It is even rarer to improve the performance of superconducting films by almost half directly.

"I dare say I have never seen such a perfect cross-section."

“Is this data too perfect?”

Rosen sighed, his tone full of amazement, and said: "I have checked the data. Although it is limited, there is no problem. No matter how you look at it, Xu Qingzhou would not lie for funding. Of course, it does not rule out that the other party is mentally ill."

Everyone was shocked. They had just planned to celebrate the new experimental results, but now they could not accept the news.

It's like falling from heaven to hell.

The huge office fell silent again.

Professor McVeys was the first to recover. He clapped his hands and consoled them, "Okay, everyone. Although Xu Qingzhou's product far exceeds ours in terms of Jc performance, this does not mean that we have failed. In terms of decoherence, our superconducting film still has a good market."

Although there is no advantage, it is not completely useless if it is only compared with decoherence.
The fifty-year-old professor sighed inwardly.

Facing this young man who doesn't play by the rules, I feel deeply powerless.

Friends in the field of mathematics often joke that mathematics is a young person's game, which makes sense to a certain extent, but when will condensed matter also become like this?
Professor McVis secretly took a deep breath and adjusted his state. If he, the leader, became depressed, the team would be finished.

Their experimental progress is normal.

Xu Qingzhou's research team is working at a speed that is a bit weird.

He said in a deep voice: "Perhaps we need to change our established goals and consider putting superconducting films on the production line as soon as possible."

The field of superconducting thin films is already in chaos, and who knows what will happen in the future. They use molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology to increase the coherence time of superconducting quantum bits from microseconds to milliseconds.

If we wait any longer, what if another experimental group suddenly emerges from somewhere and produces similar results to theirs, then everything will be over.

"I agree." Clan Xavier nodded, thinking back to the last gathering. He thought Professor Rosen's worries were over. He smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that countless laboratories will have sleepless nights tonight."

"I have a hunch."

Rosen looked out the window, his sight drifting away little by little, and continued: "Our world may really change because of this young man."

A long time ago, he had the same doubts as most people.

Xu Qingzhou had just won the Fields Medal, so why did he retire at the height of his career and instead of doing mathematical research, he went into the field of physics?

Now, the answer is obvious.

He has broken several mathematical conjectures in the field of mathematics and was called the greatest mathematician of the 21st century by the media.

Later, the 22-year-old young man turned his attention to the field of physics.

Quantum mechanics, Higgs boson companion particles, and now superconducting films. It seems that this world has not seen such a brilliant figure for many years.

(End of this chapter)