I really just want to be a scholar

Chapter 687 Professor Coppert's gift!

Ning Qingjun said worriedly: "The biggest problem now is that we may not be able to find researchers who are familiar with this topic of topological quantum computing in China, nor can we find suitable high-end equipment and instruments to continue the research on this topic of quantum communication."

"We can ask Uncle Yang to come up with ideas for experimental equipment and laboratories. In fact, our country has reached or approached the international forefront in many sub-fields of quantum computing, such as ultra-cold atom quantum simulation and silicon-based quantum dot quantum computing. , superconducting quantum computing and other directions. I believe that no matter in China, we can find a suitable laboratory with equipment and instruments that can support our subject, and even if it cannot fully support it, we can achieve indirect support through various flexible methods.”

Qin Ke is optimistic: "As for the manpower and all the current theoretical materials, I will go and have a good talk with Professor Coppert. I don't think he will want his hard work to come to nothing like this. He will give us the greatest support. .Well, don’t worry, there will always be more solutions than problems.”

Ning Qingjun's heart relaxed, but his gaze towards Qin Ke became warmer.

Every time something big happens, Qin Ke's "calmness" and "optimism" will always make her feel at ease, as if she has a backbone.

This is also Qin Ke's unique charm. Others will only worry and shrink back when encountering difficulties, but in Qin Ke, such negative emotions are rarely seen. He will always actively use all the conditions in his hand to overcome difficulties. Difficulty reaching the goal.

However, Ning Qingyun was very careful. She quickly remembered a more important matter, and couldn't help asking again: "Leaving aside the equipment and manpower, assuming we have equipment and manpower, but our theoretical level in quantum mechanics Professor Coppett’s experience and experience are not as good as Professor Coppet’s, and doesn’t it mean that Professor John Krause’s team at the University of California will make breakthroughs in similar topics within this year?”

"We can continue to learn the knowledge of quantum mechanics by ourselves." Qin Ke is not worried about knowledge at all. His physics level will be upgraded soon. As long as he reaches the "master level", he can have all physics sub-subjects comparable to senior professors. The huge amount of knowledge he is proficient in will only be stronger than Professor Coppert, not weaker.

"As for Professor John Krause's team..." Qin Ke smiled, his eyes flashed with confidence and said: "I think, whether it is Professor Coppert or the University of Munich, they are too overestimated Professor John Krause's research results."

"Overrated?"

"Yes. I guess they made a judgment based on two or three of the most widely circulated results and released a manifesto and an interview report, so they overestimated Professor John Krause. These days I specially asked Shimmer to find all the I sorted out all the materials related to Professor John Krause’s team, and then read them on the plane here, and these materials confirmed my judgment.”

"So that's what you were looking at at that time!" Ning Qingyun recalled that Qin Ke was indeed flipping through a thick stack of materials on the plane, but she was entrusted by Qin Ke at that time, and had been busy calculating the tutorial structure of seed science In the work of sorting and editing, I didn't have time to look closely at what materials Qin Ke was looking at.

"Yes, after reading these materials, I am basically sure that Professor John Krause's team has indeed made significant progress in the research of quantum entanglement and 'Bell's inequality', but this does not mean that they can It will soon be applied to topological quantum computing. If they want to solve the problem of quantum decoherence and error correction, and achieve efficient fault tolerance, it will take at least a year."

"You mean..." Ning Qingyun cheered up: "We still have a chance?"

Qin Ke smiled and said: "Yes, until the last moment, it is still unknown who will win the game. And for the two of us, this will be a good opportunity to learn and practice quantum mechanics, won't it? Let's go, let's go and Professor Coppert speak directly."

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When Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun came to the ward again, Professor Copette was already awake, eating liquid food under the care of his wife.Now his tongue is not very flexible, chewing and swallowing are still difficult, and he is in a bad mood. After eating half a bowl, he shakes his head and refuses to eat any more.

His wife and assistant Harold were persuading him helplessly, but Professor Coppet stubbornly turned his head away, just in time to see Qin and Ke standing at the door.

Unspeakable pain, shame, sadness, and loss flashed across the eyes of the old professor, and he looked away again.

Assistant Harold hurriedly got up and introduced Qin and Ke to Coppette's wife, and then said: "Professor Qin, Professor Ning, you two, talk to the professor slowly." Then he carefully took the old lady out , leaving only Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun, and Copet in the ward.

Qin Ke noticed these details, and thought to himself that this Harold is a very good assistant candidate, and he has to try to see if he can go to Xiaguo.

But the most important thing at the moment is to convince Professor Koppett.

Qin Ke stepped forward and said softly in German, "Professor Koppett, we are here to see you."

After a while, Kopet raised his head and looked at Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

His shriveled lips moved, and in the end he barely managed to say: "I'm sorry..." He couldn't continue, and two lines of painful tears fell silently along his pale and thin face.

Seeing this scene, Ning Qingyun felt uncomfortable again, she bit her red lips tightly, trying to hold back the tears in her eyes.

She didn't speak, because she was afraid that if she spoke at this time, it would disturb Qin Ke's next persuasion work.

Qin Ke went to the bed and sat down, held Professor Coppert's withered hand, and said softly, "I'm not sorry. Professor Coppett, you are a very good scientist. Others say 'dedicate your life to scientific research' is just bragging. But you practice this sentence with your life. No matter what, you are one of the scientists I respect most."

Probably feeling the warmth and sincerity in Qin Ke's voice, the pain in Coppett's eyes lessened a little.

He sighed softly: "I...failed...lost...just now...Harold didn't say...but I...guessed...the team...disbanded...the project was...terminated... right?"

His consciousness is still clear, but his language ability is severely damaged, and he cannot speak a complete sentence, so he can only speak slowly and intermittently.

Qin Ke nodded: "Vice President Hu Bo told me about this just now. The official notice will probably be issued soon."

Even though he knew that this was an inevitable result, seeing that Qin Ke had confirmed the matter, Coppett's face was still gray again, and his whole body was like a plant that had lost its water, and even its life was constantly flowing away.

Qin Ke clenched his hand tightly, and said firmly: "But our common project is not over yet, and it won't be over!"

Kopet's gray eyes slightly recovered, and he looked at Qin Ke.

"I plan to bring it back to Xia Kingdom and continue. At that time, all the research results will still be shared by the three of us in accordance with the supplementary agreement, and the first author of the final paper will also be the three of us. Of course, This project is no longer relevant to the University of Munich, because they have unilaterally terminated the project, and you will only represent yourself."

Seeing that Qin Ke still insisted on going on, Kopet's eyes flashed with emotion, but he shook his head with all his strength and said, "You...you? No way...it's too difficult...and...it's too late..."

"It's too late? Do you think that Professor John Krause's team has made great progress in the study of quantum entanglement effects, and is also applying these results to topological quantum computing through the direction of topological insulators. It is estimated that it will soon Will you be one step ahead of us and establish a complete and excellent theoretical system of topological quantum computing?"

Professor Coppert nodded painfully and desperately.

If John Krause's team hadn't been publishing new results in the past two years, which put him under too much pressure, how could he speed up his progress desperately, conduct research day and night, and eventually his body collapsed and he lost everything?
"Quantum computing is indeed a new communication method that uses the quantum entanglement effect to transmit information, but it does not mean that the in-depth study of the quantum entanglement effect and a better understanding of its characteristics can realize real quantum computing."

Qin Ke turned around and waved. Chen Ming, who had been standing outside the door, came in, handed him a backpack, and gave Qin Ke a helpless look of "I'm not your servant boy".

Qin Ke returned a smile, then took out the thick stack of documents from his backpack, and said to Professor Koppett:
"I checked all the materials and related news reports made public by Professor John Krause's team, and basically confirmed that the direction of their research on topological insulators is indeed the same as ours. Topological superconductors are the main ones, and topological insulators are The auxiliary direction is relatively close, but there are many differences in the details, and the core is completely different!"

He put materials at least 30cm thick on the head of the bed.

The heavy weight caused the bedside table to shake slightly, and it also made Coppett's eyes a little more dignified.

Apparently, Qin Ke wasn't talking casually.

"The method they research is to combine light quantum with microwave control, through microwave manipulation and Stark shift of atomic-molecular transition frequency, and use the nitrogen vacancy center of topological insulators such as diamond to manipulate electron spin and then control qubits The specific principle is to establish 'quantum entanglement' between electrons and nuclear spins to transfer a photon state to a nuclear spin state, thereby transmitting information to quantum processors and quantum memories through the principle of quantum teleportation You should know all of these, so I won't go into details."

Having said that, Qin Ke's tone gradually became firm and high-spirited:
"In this direction, they are indeed successful, but the criteria required for a quantum computer to operate must fully meet the 'DiVincenzo criteria', namely scalability, initialization, measurement, universal gates and long-term coherence! And I am sure What’s more, they can’t meet these five points at the same time! At least they face the problem that the resolution of single quantum operation and entanglement operation is too low to solve the problem of long-term coherence, and can’t achieve efficient fault tolerance! And according to my judgment, this problem , they may not be able to solve it within a year!"

The young boy's voice echoed in the dusty ward, and the sunlight projected from the window shone on his body, making him seem a little more convincing.

"And we are going in the direction of combining topological superconductors with topological insulators, that is, the direction of 'topological superconducting vortex state', the core of which is the topological quantum composed of 'Majorana zero-energy modes', making the paired Majorana Lana fermions can form a fixed structure, thereby solving the problem of interaction between qubits and realizing efficient error correction directly at the hardware level."

"Our research direction will undoubtedly be more difficult. In addition, we started from scratch, and the research workload is even greater. This is why even if we keep catching up, the research progress is still not as good as that of Professor John Krause's team. .But our direction is the most correct and has the brightest future!"

When Qin Ke said this, he was full of confidence. Even though the team of Professor John Krause finally completed the research and published the research results, Qin Ke still firmly believed that the direction he chose was the most cost-effective and the most potential for promotion and application.

Because the system rewarded him with the S-level knowledge "A new type of carbon crystal composite nanomaterial production process suitable for 1nm chips" mentioned in the method and principle of realizing topological quantum computing, which is the topological superconducting vortex state !
It's a pity that the S-level knowledge only pointed out the correct direction and general theoretical principles, so it couldn't be used directly.But with the right direction, there is no need to worry about wasting effort, let alone going astray, so Qin Ke is now full of confidence and wants to continue to carry out this project.

"At present, we have successfully observed the characteristics of the near-quantized conductance platform of Majorana fermions. As long as we can find the most suitable superconducting material in the laboratory environment, we can realize large-area, highly ordered and tunable Majorana fermions. The Rana fermion sublattice array can realize topological quantum computing, and summarize a new and complete theoretical system of topological quantum computing, which will trigger a new round of electronic technology revolution!"

Professor Coppet's expression also became agitated, he gritted his teeth and said, "I know...our...direction is...correct...but it's too difficult..."

Qin Ke nodded with approval and regret: "Yes...it's really difficult. The road to scientific research is often a journey of half a century. We have devoted a year and a half of hard work and sweat, and only in January this year, Basically, we determined a more feasible direction of new superconducting materials, but after spending more than seven months, we still failed to find the most valuable piece of the puzzle from thousands of possibilities. Let our theoretical system come to a successful conclusion..."

But at the next moment, his eyes were ignited with fierce fighting spirit, and he waved his arms and said, "But so what? Is it because of difficulties, is it because of no results for more than half a year, is it because others are ahead, and we have to give up all the time Do you give up the truth that is getting closer?"

Qin Ke looked directly into Professor Coppett's eyes, and said word by word: "Professor Coppett, you are willing to sacrifice your life for this subject, don't you just want to see the day when the fog of truth will be dispelled, and you will find the ultimate truth?" The exciting and most memorable correct answer?"

The expression on Professor Coppett's face has obviously changed vividly!
"If you still have the pride of being a scientist and the persistence and perseverance of being a truth seeker..." Qin Ke patted himself on the chest vigorously: "Then leave it to me, Qingyun and I have confidence and ability, Let you see the day when your dreams come true! Don’t forget, I am the 'Miracle Boy', and the person standing next to me is also the famous 'Unbelievable Girl'!"

Ning Qingyun next to her kept staring at Qin Ke. At this time, the girl's eyes were bright, and she felt an indescribable passion and confidence flowing in her chest.

I have to say that when this villain spoke, he was a bit of a middle school sophomore in high school, but his confident and flying look, and his contagious action language made people feel a strong urge to trust him unconsciously, and Willing to follow him all the time!

Professor Coppet was silent for a long time, then suddenly grinned, revealing a difficult but revived smile:
"You...convinced...I...you...you...need...me...how...to support...you..."

Qin Ke also showed a smile: "You don't have to worry about the funding problem. Qingyun and I can solve it. What we need your support is to provide all the materials in our cooperation project so far, and recommend experienced researchers to follow Let's go back to Xia Kingdom, continue this subject, and find the final answer together!"

"Okay... these... I can... give you..." Professor Coppet suddenly grinned, and said, "I also... have a... present... I can... give you..."

Gift?Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at each other.

It was only during Copet's intermittent narration that Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun knew what this so-called "gift" was.

It turns out that Professor Coppett has a good friend named Rice, who is also an academic expert with a laboratory, but he has a private independent laboratory, which is engaged in the research of ultra-low temperature special materials in physical materials. Unfortunately, his experiments in recent years The laboratory encountered great difficulties and was on the verge of bankruptcy, so he hesitated whether to sell a 30mK scanning tunneling microscope system.

Professor Coppert said he could help persuade Professor Rice to sell the device to Zink.

30mK Scanning Tunneling Microscope System!
Both Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun were overjoyed, they never expected that Professor Copette would give such a big gift!
It must be known that the magnetism of Majorana fermions is very weak, and a scanning tunneling microscope with high sensitivity and low temperature is required to achieve the observation purpose, and 30mK, which is only 0.03K higher than absolute zero, can fully achieve the observation of Majorana Harsh cryogenic conditions for fermions!

Such experimental equipment, even if it is an old model, is a rare treasure in the world. Even if you are willing to pay a sky-high price, it is difficult to buy it!
Of course, even with Professor Coppett's persuasion and favor, it is estimated that you will have to pay a high price to purchase it, and it will be very troublesome to travel long distances across the ocean to return to Xiaguo, as well as subsequent equipment maintenance and so on. thing.

But no matter how much effort you put in, it's all worth it!
Such high-end equipment will play a key role in Qin Ke's next series of quantum mechanics topics and chip material topics!
"Thank you, Professor Kopet! Your gift is very precious and useful!" Qin Ke thanked him from the bottom of his heart.

"Please... definitely..." Professor Copette spoke with difficulty, his voice was intermittent, and his fingers, which could hardly move at first, also tried their best to hold Qin Ke's hand back:
"Must...let me...see...the day when...our...project...succeeds...!"

Qin Ke's tone was firm and confident: "Don't worry, you will see that day! It will be in the near future!"

　There is one more chapter to be added, which is being coded, and I will try to send it out before going to bed tonight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)