Black Technology Refresher Manual

During the National Day, Chen Jingqiu really didn't have time to come to see Sheng Ming'an, his mentor refused to let him go, and the institute was short of people, so would it be good to have two days off in a month?

Sheng Ming'an felt a little regretful, but he understood that it was just at Chen Jingqiu's request to add an extra hour to the video chat every day, so he wasn't afraid of being busy and didn't have to communicate all the time. When he was busy, looking up and seeing each other's figures was enough to comfort him.

The step-by-step daily routine can make people feel the passage of time. After putting on the padded jacket, Sheng Mingan found out that he has been enrolled in MIT for more than three months, and he is used to the busy and fast pace of MIT.

On this day, Sheng Mingan had just finished the homework assigned to him by Professor Weiss, and finally left the dormitory to look for food in the restaurant downstairs.

As soon as I found a seat to sit down, someone stopped and asked, "Do you mind if I sit here?"

Sheng Ming'an looked up and saw that it was Julian who hadn't seen him for several months. He agreed with nothing.

Julianne: "You hid from me for months."

Sheng Ming'an: "Don't look for me, I don't have to hide from you."

Julian: "Then you can rest assured? This is the last time I invite you."

Sheng Mingan did not hesitate: "I refuse."

"Listen to me first before you consider rejecting it." Julian said with a look of winning: "The angle twist of double-layer graphene verifies its superconductivity, and the current passes through the material without energy loss."

"Based on the graphene 'magic angle' theory published at the beginning of the year?"

"This is the subject we are researching... okay, don't argue about this one, as you said, it is indeed a subject research based on the 'magic angle' theory." Julian crossed her fingers and propped her chin and said: "But we have completed? The experiment of this conjecture, soon? You may be able to see the paper in a long time. I can boldly predict that graphene is the key to achieving room temperature superconductivity."

"Many people have predicted that graphene is the key to achieving room temperature superconductivity."

The particularity of graphene itself and the very small electron density are one ten-thousandth of that of conventional superconductors, so it is much easier and stronger to generate superconductivity than conventional superconductors.

To put it simply, graphene is a material that has been found to be the best superconductor. As long as the underlying mechanism is understood, the superconducting mechanism of unconventional superconducting materials can be unraveled, so as to achieve room temperature superconductivity.

However, the question of the superconducting mechanism of unconventional superconducting materials has plagued the material physics community for more than [-] years, and no one has been able to solve it so far. The "magic angle" of graphene is undoubtedly a surprising discovery.

Julian: "But no team has achieved our results. Sheng Ming'an, I sincerely invite you to join our team. I hope you can help me to speed up our research and development process."

"Feel sorry."

Julianne couldn't believe it: "You know you said no? What?"

"A theory of superconductivity that can share the Nobel Prize?"

"Yes." Julian said with a serious and puzzled face, "I don't understand why you are so stubborn. Joining our research project will do you no harm. Even without you, we will finish the project sooner or later, but you will I really don't understand you when you throw away the opportunity you get."

Sheng Mingan took advantage of the gap between her words to finish the lunch, put down the knife and fork and said, "Let's not talk about whether you can establish a new superconducting physical theory, just solve it? Do I have a share of the Nobel Prize?"

The maximum number of Nobel Prizes is 3, and it is impossible for the jury to award the Nobel Prize to 3 people who participated in the same theoretical achievement, at most two people.And he joined the project team halfway, his foundation is not stable, and he is likely to be wiped out of the credit, and he is downgraded from the first author of the theory to the second author? Maybe.

It's not that he judges others as a villain, but he is not familiar with Julian and Julian's mentor, and he is not a student of Julian's mentor. The entanglement is not deep, and there is no bridge of interest, so it is hard to trust.

What's more, Sheng Mingan lowered his eyes, picked up the plate and prepared to get up, "I said that I don't like a second soul in a team. Even if I just participate in the same project, I must be the only boss."

The academia is used to calling the boss of the scientific research team the boss ('boss'). In some teams, the boss only pays the funds, leaves aside the subject, and leaves the scheme design and experiments to the team. Some bosses lead the team to brainstorm, but all scientific research teams They all have one thing in common, the boss can only be one.

Otherwise, it is easy to cause a situation of disagreement.

Sheng Ming'an: "If you can persuade your mentor to back down, then I am willing to join your team."

Julian was finally irritated by his arrogant attitude, and an angry look appeared on her face: "Sheng Ming'an, because we are all Chinese, I invite you sincerely, but you are too much?"

Sheng Mingan stared quietly at Julian for three seconds, then left without any reaction.

Julian was very angry, hurriedly finished the bread and beef on the plate, and went back to the laboratory to report the incident to her supervisor indignantly.

And her mentor—Pierre, a professor at the MIT School of Science.

Pierre: "Did you say that we have explored the world of a new theory of superconductivity?"

Julian was still very angry: "Of course? He not only refused, but also said that if I am sincere, I should ask you to step aside."

Pierre frowned. Although Sheng Mingan had won the Physics War Award at a young age, he did have the capital of arrogance, but now he is just a student, and it would be arrogant to ask a professor at MIT to give up his project.

Julian spread her hands and tried to convince her instructor: "Sheng Ming'an may be a genius, but the god of fate will not always favor him, right? Our subject is about to make amazing discoveries, so there is no need? Ask Sheng Ming'an, he may not be able to help We cracked key nodes."

Pierre turned his back to prevent Julian from seeing his instantly cold face, and quickly thought about who else in MIT could replace Sheng Mingan, Pablo's student, the Huaguo student who discovered the magic angle of graphene. It can be considered, but it's a pity that I can't win over.

In fact, Sheng Ming'an is the most suitable. The winner of the Wo Award has made his status in the academic world skyrocket. Joining his project is the most suitable candidate to take the blame.

——Yes, take the blame.

For example, when Professor Weiss warned Sheng Ming'an that the project failed or would be held accountable for the whereabouts of funds, in fact it is common for projects to fail to be researched, and federal agencies will not hold the project initiators accountable for this.

Even if it is reported, as long as the records of each fund flow are clear and the funds are spent on research projects, they will not be held accountable at all.

And Pierre wanted to find someone to take the blame, naturally because he used the research funds privately, and it was more than the 200 million dollars that Professor Weiss thought.

Federal agencies impose heavy penalties for fraudulent scientific research funds. The fraudulent amount is relatively small and needs to pay a fine. At the same time, the school where the counterfeiter is located needs to pay a fine that is several times higher than the counterfeiter.

A rough calculation of the amount of Pierre’s fraudulent funds is no less than 200 million US dollars. Once the federal agency pursues it, he will face a fine of more than 200 million US dollars. At the same time, he will be fined tens of millions of US dollars for MIT. MIT will also ask him to voluntarily resign.

Although no one reported it yet, it was a ticking time bomb. Pierre couldn't sleep and eat, so he wanted to find someone to take the blame.

In his list of candidates, Sheng Ming was arranged at the top.

Who would have thought that Sheng Ming'an would be so difficult to deal with? !

After listening to Julianne's words, Pierre was very depressed, but he was willing to give the position of the project boss. Doesn't doing so mean telling others that this is a trap?

When Pierre was having a headache, he suddenly heard Julian complain: "Sheng has an independent research institute in Huaguo, I guess he set up a research project on graphene superconductivity, so he doesn't care about our invitation."

Pierre turned around abruptly: "What did you say?"

Julian froze for a moment and said, "Sheng has an independent research institute?"

"No." Pierre shook his head: "You said he set up the project of graphene superconductivity? He told you?"

Julian: "He didn't tell me clearly, but I guessed from my conversation with him that he also? Established? A related superconducting project. This is a reasonable guess. First, he conquered the industrial production of graphene The next step is to study the properties of graphene, but among the many properties of graphene, is there any more attractive than superconductivity?"

"Secondly, during our conversation, the superconductivity of unconventional superconductors was mentioned more than once. He has a very deep understanding of superconducting papers, superconducting theories, superconducting experiments and data over the years, and he will say one or two things from time to time. Very accurate data."

"Thirdly, he has money to squander, and he has his own research institute and team—" Julian fell silent when she said this, feeling jealous.

Which scientist doesn't look forward to endlessly squandering scientific research funds and his own research institute and team?

Sheng Ming'an realized the configuration of her dreams when she was younger than her, so envious...

Julianne cleared her throat, "So I guess he must have a project on superconductivity too."

Pierre was thoughtful, "I see? Since he refused, let's forget it? Let's find some suitable candidates from the old students."

Julian breathed a sigh of relief, great? The boss finally gave up on Sheng Mingan, she really didn't want to be hit again.

***

The MIT laboratory is well-equipped and the school is very generous. As long as the project is passed and the instructor recommends it, students who are studying for a Ph.D. can basically apply for the right to use the laboratory.

Sheng Mingan can complete the topics and papers assigned by Professor Weiss very well every time, so the application for the right to use the laboratory is easily approved.

In the first few months, Sheng Mingan was getting used to life at MIT and research on graphene superconductivity in China. Except for the task of Professor Weiss, he did not prepare independent projects. He did not prepare for the project until Christmas was three weeks away. Apply for laboratory use and school research funding.

All the application materials will be sent to Professor Weiss, and then they will be reviewed and approved by Professor Weiss, and then transferred to the school management system to obtain the laboratory usage time.

After finishing all this, Sheng Mingan stretched his waist, turned on the domestic video call, collected the summary of the experimental data from the research institute for nearly a week, and began to check.

As the largest family of superconducting materials, copper oxide materials have always been the focus of superconductor research. According to the plan given by Sheng Mingan, the research institute made nearly [-] mixed samples of copper oxide, and all the sample data were sent to Sheng Ming. Ann's email.

Sheng Ming'an took out more than 5000 sample data and summarized them to analyze the factors that determine the superconducting critical temperature of different copper oxide materials.

Obviously, it is not easy to find anomalies from massive amounts of data, but Sheng Ming'an was very patient, carefully checking and recording each sample data.

From night to night, only less than one-fifth of the data was recorded. Sheng Mingan felt sleepy, so he went to bed first, and got up after dawn to continue.

After recording for three consecutive days, the data was finally summarized.

Sheng Mingan tapped on the computer, focused his eyes, and built a model of the process of producing superconductivity in copper oxide lattices in his mind based on the data records.

Time passed too quickly, and the morning passed when he was not paying attention.

The single-person dormitory is quiet, the clock ticks forward at a constant speed, the cold wind blows outside the window, the sky is cloudless, and there is no sunshine, it is quite gloomy, the trees are dry, and the Charles River is calm and without waves.

Students walked across the Charles River in groups, and entered the public area of ​​the dormitory building, dancing and discussing the knowledge points inspired by the professor.Whiteboards and sofas can be seen almost everywhere in public spaces. People often get up to fill the whiteboards in the middle of the discussion, and record their sudden inspiration.

In addition to lively academic discussions in public places, there are also cats doing experiments quietly in the laboratory, and people like Sheng Mingan hiding in the dormitory thinking about scientific research...

MIT has a strong academic atmosphere, and it seems that no matter how weird the behavior is, it can be tolerated and allowed to wander freely in the academic world.

Sheng Mingan hid in the dormitory for the first three days, missed class on the fourth morning, and had already asked for leave, but Professor Weiss still dutifully called to ask how he was doing, maybe it was time to go out for a walk.

Sheng Mingan, who was waiting for the data software to sort out the abnormalities, said to Professor Weiss on the other end of the phone: "Please rest assured, I am just looking for a small path to establish a new physical theory."

Professor Weiss doesn't take it seriously, and physicists who don't pursue the establishment of new physical theories are not even considered beginners, so he doesn't think Sheng Ming'an is overthinking his abilities, although there have been no new physical theories in the past [-] years It is established.

"Don't be bored in the room all the time, go out for a walk more often. Did you pass your project application? Pay attention to receiving emails."

"Thank you, Professor Weiss."

After the instructions were in place and Sheng Mingan was confirmed to be alive, Professor Weiss hung up the phone.

Just at this time, the data integration results were completed, and when he saw the array of clear data, Sheng Mingan's expression fluctuated a bit, and he quickly copied the string of data with a ballpoint pen and made it into a graph table.

The graphic table is complete, the abscissa is the superconducting critical temperature, and the ordinate is... electron pair concentration? !

According to the graph, there is a good linear relationship between the electron pair concentration and the superconducting critical temperature.In other words, the superconducting critical temperature of cuprate superconducting materials is affected by the electron pair concentration.

Not electron pair density?

Sheng Mingan was surprised. The current mainstream theory of superconductivity is that the density of electron pairs determines the critical temperature of superconductivity. His discovery will subvert the current mainstream theory.

However, he does not plan to publish the paper immediately, and he will wait until he has figured it out and confirmed it.

Sheng Mingan reset a new set of plans based on the obtained data and sent them to the research institute to hand over to the team. At the same time, he was going to start with graphene to unravel the relationship between the wave function and the superconducting effect.

Just as the application for laboratory use was approved, he immediately set off for the laboratory.

The laboratory equipment and materials are all ready, and the application can be made after the report is printed. Sheng Mingan started the relevant experiments and model design in the laboratory.

In the following time, he often went back and forth between the dormitory and the laboratory, taking time to attend classes.

Professor Weiss knew that his experiment had reached a critical period, so he turned a blind eye to his absenteeism.

***

Hua Guo, Institute of Nuclear Industry Physics.

Chen Jingqiu followed his mentor, the dean of the Institute of Nuclear Industry Physics, looked down at the display screen, and concentrated on the construction of the model of the first discharge of the large-scale tokamak device.

Dean: "Nervous?"

Chen Jingqiu said truthfully: "A little bit."

The model design of the large-scale tokamak device was proposed and expounded in person during a meeting discussion, and he obtained inspiration from current popular technologies such as quantum entanglement and petawatt-level laser systems, and designed a large-scale advanced tokamak device.

The plan was discussed and approved at various levels, and the simulation model was first built. If the simulation model was successfully completed for the first discharge, the institute would adopt this plan to build a nuclear fusion device.

Dean: "Failed? Just failed, or? Nothing."

Chen Jingqiu smiled meaninglessly. For a moment, he was very nervous, but he didn't think he would fail, nor did he want to accept failure.

Dean: "The perfect tokamak device to realize nuclear fusion is the goal we have been pursuing. The extremely stringent high temperature requirements and constraints are technically difficult to achieve at present."

After a pause, he continued: "In the past two years, we have conquered the core technology of the first wall of the ITER project, and have mastered the core part of the tokamak device directly facing the plasma at [-] million degrees Celsius."

The so-called ITER plan is a nuclear fusion experimental reactor plan jointly signed and implemented by China, Russia, Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea and India, and more than 35 countries, to jointly participate in the construction of large-scale tokamak devices.

Huaguo is responsible for 9% of the manufacturing tasks of the device, and the Institute of Nuclear Industry Physics will complete the core technology of the first wall in the plan, so Huaguo has successfully ranked among the world's leading nuclear fusion reactors.

Chen Jingqiu understood the deep meaning of the dean's words. He said that the technology is difficult and there is still a long way to realize the application of nuclear fusion, but he is also afraid of damaging the confidence of young people, so he added that his own technology is among the top three in the world, so don't worry too much about the setback of failure.

Chen Jingqiu smiled? Laughed?, appreciating the dean's kindness, and then said: "Discharge."