Although Qin Ke predicted that this year's Spring Festival would be busy and there would be a lot of social activities, he still underestimated the Fields Medal and the significance behind it.

Not to mention anything else, just two months ago when he and Ning Qingyun returned to China after receiving the Philippine Medal, the overwhelming publicity reports throughout the country showed the impact of these two Fields Medals on the academic and scientific research community in Xia State and even on

The extraordinary significance of the entire Xia Kingdom.

What's more, this time he and Ning Qingyun are celebrating the New Year together. It is a rare opportunity for big figures from all walks of life to meet two Philippine Award winners with world-class influence and fame.

So starting from the first day of junior high school, big figures from the province, city, and town, principals, academicians, and senior professors from major universities in the province almost came hand in hand, as well as well-known figures in the business and cultural circles, and almost came together.

He trampled down the threshold of Qin Ke's house.

On the contrary, local neighbors and relatives saw the endless stream of big shots coming to pay New Year greetings, and they did not dare to come easily.

Fortunately, Qin Ke had already made a plan. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when Secretary Fang Zhouping accompanied several provincial dignitaries to express their condolences and pay New Year greetings, Qin Ke politely asked Secretary Fang to stay and help greet the guests and declined any unnecessary entertainment.

After getting the nod of approval from the big boss around him, Secretary Fang happily stayed.

He knew very well that there were only a few people in Huahai Province who could make the big boss personally lead a team to pay New Year greetings early in the morning, and the extremely young mathematician in front of him was one of them.

The big boss is looking forward to Qin Ke and his wife coming back to Yuanzhou to set up an academic research institution such as the Institute of Mathematics to improve the academic atmosphere and status of the entire Huahai Province. This is just because Qin Ke and his wife are currently studying for graduate school with Academician Jiang Lao.

, it was impossible for him to interrupt his studies and come back, so the big boss didn’t say anything. He just came over every year to offer condolences and maintain communication.

So Secretary Fang has long wanted to make friends with Qin Ke.

Moreover, this young man has achieved world-renowned academic achievements at the age of twenty, and his future will be even more limitless. If we don’t step up investment now, when will we invest?

But it’s interesting to say that although Fang Zhouping initially interacted with Qin Ke for utilitarian purposes, soon after the contact, he found that Qin Ke’s personality was also very likable, his approach to dealing with people was flexible, and his speech was also impressive.

Feeling comfortable in his heart, Secretary Fang gradually began to really want to become friends with Qin Ke.

Under Secretary Fang's deliberate efforts to make friends, Qin Ke was a good friend. Within three days, the two of them were calling each other brothers. Even though there was an age gap of nearly twenty years between the two, Secretary Fang still insisted on not letting Qin Ke.

Call him "Uncle Fang" or "Secretary Fang", and change it to "Brother Fang".

Secretary Fang's "staying behind" finally freed Qin Ke from the busy schedule of social activities during the Spring Festival holiday.

Secretary Fang is a well-known figure in Huahai Province. He is popular and has a special status. Who dares not to give him some face? He is also good at dancing. Which people are worthy of Qin Ke’s entertainment, and which ones are just coming to discuss business cooperation under the banner of New Year greetings?

, he can see through at a glance who is trying to fish in troubled waters and wants to get close to them, and he can handle them with ease.

Thanks to this, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, in addition to dealing with important guests from all over the world, also have free time to continue researching the international cooperation topic of "topological quantum computing" with Professor Kopet who is far away in Germany.

This collaborative project has been ongoing for more than ten months since March last year. However, there are still too many gaps in the theoretical level of "topological quantum computing". In addition, a team member had to change to a new one due to the defection of a certain team member.

We need to re-research in the right direction, so for now we can only say that the progress is good, but there is still a long way to go before we can actually achieve results.

On the night of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were both in the room, participating in the remote video conference of the Copet team.

In the video conference, Professor Kopet told everyone seriously: "At present, we have successfully observed the near-quantized conductance platform characteristics of Majorana fermions and have made very good progress. The next thing to do is to expand the

The Majorana fermion carrier platform seeks the most suitable superconducting material. Our goal is to select the most suitable superconducting material in a laboratory environment to achieve large-area, highly ordered and controllable Majorana fermion carriers.

Lana fermion lattice array. And I hope to complete this goal before June!"

Professor Koppet is indeed a little impatient. Although he has studied quantum theory all his life, he has won the Max Planck Medal, the Leibniz Award, the Heinemann Award, etc., and has also published articles in "Nature" and "Science"

He has published many papers and can be regarded as a giant in the industry, but because he has never had any great academic achievements that can affect the entire quantum world, he has never been able to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Which professor who has been engaged in physics all his life would not regard this Nobel Prize as his lifelong pursuit and goal?

Professor Koppett is 64 years old this year and has never been in good health. After having a heart operation the year before last, he clearly felt that his energy was declining. His ability to stay on the frontline of scientific research for another two years is almost the limit.

In other words, if you fail to win the Nobel Prize in Physics within the next two years, you will probably never have another chance.

But the competition for the Nobel Prize in Physics is so fierce now. At least in the world of quantum science alone, Koppet knew that physicists such as Alan Aspe and John Krauser had "verified the violation of Bell's inequality" in the "entangled photon experiment"

” has achieved world-renowned results.

In particular, Professor John Krauser of the University of California successfully verified the photon entanglement experiment that violated Bell's inequality, resolving the crisis of quantum mechanics being replaced.

Compared with them, Professor Kopet has not even been able to solve the problem of topological quantum computing, so how can he compete for the Nobel Prize?

At the beginning of last year, Professor Koppett was cheated by an American mathematician and almost despaired of the Nobel Prize. But fortunately, he welcomed Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun, two young mathematicians to join him.

He has extremely high attainments in topology, quantum science, functional analysis, and mathematical modeling. He is especially outstanding in mathematics, which has rekindled Professor Coppet's hope.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this time, Professor Coppet faced the big screen and explained to the team members the goals of this year's project and the difficulties faced.

"The difficulty in realizing a large-area, highly ordered and controllable Majorana fermion lattice array lies in finding and developing suitable superconducting materials so that the Majorana fermion array can be accurately controlled by an external magnetic field. This

It is the key to whether the error correction mechanism of topological quantum computing is controllable..."

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun both listened very carefully. For more than half a year, they had unlimited access to all the information of the Koppet research team, which gave them a deep understanding of superconducting materials, topological quantum computing, and quantum theory.

, his level in this area is no worse than that of other members of the team except Professor Kopet.

Both of them could fully understand what Professor Coppet said.

Professor Coppett spoke for almost half an hour before he stopped to take a sip of coffee, turned to look at the camera, and said with hope to Qin Ke and the others: "Next, I will invite Professor Qin and Professor Ning to explain.

Deduction results of sub-superconducting material analysis data.”

The synthesis and refining of superconducting materials itself is a big project. If it is tested purely through repeated experiments, the time, energy and money spent will be astronomical. However, through functional analysis and processing of various material data

, establishing a mathematical model and conducting deductions will undoubtedly be much more efficient.

Even just determining a direction range with a high success rate can save countless resources.

In the past year, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun's performance in mathematical modeling was enough to convince Koppet and everyone in his team, and they sincerely accepted them as core members of the team.

Opening all research materials to the two of them, and taking them to visit a key laboratory with certain confidentiality requirements last time, is a typical example of trusting and accepting the two of them.

At this time, Qin Ke nodded towards Ning Qingyun, and Ning Qingyun switched the screen of his laptop and projected the displayed content to the big screen in the conference room far away in Deguo.

Qin Ke had to deal with twenty or thirty waves of guests today, and his voice was a little hoarse and uncomfortable, so Ning Qingyun took the initiative to explain.

The girl opened her red lips lightly and said to the mathematical analysis results on the screen:

"Based on the analysis of last month's experimental data, we determined that Majorana fermions can exist stably in magnetic fields below 6T and temperatures below 4K, but in the selection of superconducting materials, superconducting semiconductor nanowires, magnetic atoms

Experimental data on seven different superconducting materials, including chains, topological insulators, and superconducting heterojunctions, all show that they fail to meet our requirements..."

After Ning Qingyun explained the analysis results one by one, he opened an extremely complex interface filled with mathematical equations.

“But fortunately, after Qin Ke and I refined all the experimental data in the past six months, conducted analytical modeling and deduction, we discovered a more feasible new superconducting material direction, that is, toward iron-based materials.

Lithium, cesium, arsenic, calcium, potassium, etc. are added to the superconducting material to form an iron-based superconductor with a double-layer self-doping structure."

"If we can synthesize iron-based superconductors with single component, high-temperature superconductivity, intrinsic topology and other properties from these added elements, then we may be able to find the most ideal Majorana fermion carrier!"

"This is just our hypothesis direction. We still need to conduct experiments to provide more experimental data so that we can continue to optimize and improve the mathematical model."

"Regarding the next theoretical research and experimental plan, our suggestions are: first, try to use the natural stress in the crystal as the source of induction, and study which elements can be added to make the superconductor produce biaxial charge density wave stripes.

And it can be transferred regularly along the direction of the crystal lattice."

"Second, when monitoring through an extremely low-temperature strong magnetic field scanning probe microscopy system, attention should be paid to monitoring the modulation effect of CDW with a wavelength of λ2 on the superconductor energy gap. If it can be found that when all the magnetic flux vortices are pinned in the superconductor,

On the charge density wave stripes in the weaker direction of the guidance, and forming a relatively ordered vortex array, that is the correct direction. Repeated experiments must be carried out until a completely ordered vortex array appears..."

When Ning Qingyun finished explaining ten minutes later, Professor Coppet took the lead in applauding, and the audience burst into applause, giving it to the two young mathematicians in the distant Xia Kingdom!

Even if I know that Qin Ke and Ning Qingjun are the winners of the Philippine Prize, and even if I have seen their superb performance in the cooperation for more than half a year, now I see that the two of them have relied on mathematical analysis and mathematical modeling to come up with such useful results.

The conclusion still made everyone couldn't help but applaud vigorously and marvel in their hearts.

If it were not for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, if they wanted to draw the same conclusion, they would have to conduct at least thousands of experiments to reach a similar conclusion.

Thousands of experiments, the expenditure of funds, money, and time are immeasurable. Even a physics master like Professor Coppet is not confident that it can be achieved within two years.

"Professor Qin, Professor Ning, it is a great honor for our team that you can become a member of our team! Oh, by the way, it seems that your Xia country is during the Spring Festival now?" Professor Coppet clapped his hands, and in the conference room

All the German scientific researchers stood up, smiled and shouted in unison: "Professor Qin, Professor Ning, 'Happy Spring Festival'!"

The last four words "Happy Chinese New Year" were shouted in Chinese. Although the pronunciation was a bit weird and not standard, you could still roughly hear it.

This was beyond Qin Ke's expectations, and it also made them feel the sincere friendship of their fellow partners.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other and replied in German: "Thank you, and I wish you a happy Spring Festival!"

The familiar German made all the fellow Germans happy.

This topic exchange meeting ended with relaxed and hopeful laughter.

Qin Xiaoke poked his head in from the half-opened door: "Brother, Sister Ning, have you finished the meeting?"

"It's over. I guess we won't have anything to do for more than a month." Qin Ke stretched out. The experiment was very time-consuming, even though they had narrowed the direction to a smaller range. Professor Coppet

It will still take a month or two for a group of researchers to obtain sufficiently valid new experimental data and send it to them for analysis.

During this period, if the two of them are interested, they can participate in the video conference to observe the discussion of the research group. If they are busy, they can not attend the meeting and work on other projects at hand.

"Yeah, brother, sister Ning, has no one come to visit you two since the fourth day of the Lunar New Year?"

Qin Ke had already greeted Fang Zhouping and asked him to let him know that he would not receive guests who came to pay New Year greetings after the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. All the important people he was supposed to meet in the past four days had already met, and he really didn't have the patience to socialize with the rest.

"Yes, after the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, you will have some free time."

"Then are you going to go to the city to play next and take me with you?"

The main guests received were Grandpa Shen Tieshan and Fang Zhouping. Only important people asked Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to come forward. Qin Xiaoke, a little homebody, didn't like to deal with strangers and could only hide in the room to practice painting. It was really hard for her.

Ning Qingyun always loved Xiao Ke the most, so she said: "Xiao Ke, your brother and I are going to attend a class reunion on the fifth and sixth day of the lunar month. Do you want to come with us?"

Qin Xiaoke hugged Ning Qingyun excitedly: "I'll go, I'll go! I'm almost bored at home! By the way, we also have a class reunion in our class. Brother, Sister Ning, will you go with me too? Everyone I all want to meet you."

Qin Ke asked about the date. It happened to be that day that he planned to go to Shi Cunyuan and Lin Haibo’s home to pay New Year greetings. However, seeing the expectant look on the little girl’s face, he said: “Okay, Qingyun and I will show our faces then, but we will only show our faces at most. Sit for half an hour, we have other things to do."

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Just as Qin Ke and the others were planning the rest of the Spring Festival holiday, far away in New York University in the United States, Professor Sreenivasan was conducting experimental verification work on the paper "Research on the Changing Characteristics of Large-Scale Circulation Forms Using the N-S Equation". It has also entered the end and is about to usher in the final result.
Chapter completed!