From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 316 Research on superconductivity?

In the afternoon, Lin Xiao came to the eating place and had a meal with Zheng Ronger's parents.

For this meal, Zheng Cheng and Xu Yan thanked Lin Xiao in every possible way.

If Lin Xiao hadn't notified them in time to post the proof of Lin's conjecture on arxiv, otherwise they might not have gotten the paper on superconductors.

Because this thesis itself is a possible direction they found in their previous projects, and after Zheng Cheng discovered it at the time, he concluded that as long as Lin's conjecture can be proved, he can complete a thesis that can be published in Science and Nature.

It's just that at that time he didn't think that Lin's conjecture could be proved in a short period of time, so he shared this matter, and there were other people doing the project with them, so they all knew this .

So if they didn't know that Lin Xiao had proved Lin's conjecture and announced it in time, if they were later, they might have to be snatched away by others.

In that case, they would not be able to return to Shangjing to work as they wished, let alone the National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics.

"Professor Lin, thank you so much! We are not drinkers, so Xu Yan and I will replace wine with tea and offer you a toast first!"

Zheng Cheng and Xu Yan raised their teacups to thank Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hands, raised his teacup to touch them, and after taking a sip, he said with a smile: "It's not necessary, it's not necessary to say everything, just thank you a few times before."

"Hey, it must be necessary, so you don't need to say more."

Zheng Cheng put down the tea cup with a smile, and poured it for Lin Xiao again. This restaurant is considered a relatively high-end restaurant, and the tea is not cheap at all.

Then the two casually chatted a few words, and Zheng Cheng couldn't help but express his congratulations to Lin Xiao for leading Huaguo to successfully develop a lithography machine, and by the way, he also expressed his congratulations to the fact that Lin Xiao's words made the United States abandon the original plan some time ago Fan admired.

"If you ask me, the two academies will have to select you as an academician next year. The Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering will have to evaluate you, and you will be an academician of the two academies directly."

Lin Xiao shook his head and smiled: "That's not necessarily the case. Being an academician is very popular."

After Dingguang Research Institute came out, there were quite a few people who hated him.

After all, the funding that his research institute can apply for every year is equal to the sum of ten research institutes.

And the amount of funding is so much every year, it can be said that if any research institute has less funding, it basically comes to him.

In addition, research institutes can also cooperate with each other, so many academicians have approached him to cooperate before. The condition of cooperation is naturally that they fix the research institute to provide funds and then share the results.

But the final results actually belong to the country, and the person in charge of the project belongs to others, so the final title is naturally also from others.

How could Lin Xiao agree to such a thing?

With those funds, it is better to leave them to the researchers of their research institute. At least, the people in his research institute are all first-class researchers, and they might be able to produce better research results.

So from this aspect, Lin Xiao has offended these academicians again.

In addition, not to mention that he rejected a large number of people who wanted to use their connections to join the Dingguang Research Institute.

There are too many people offended, and those people have mixed relationships in the academic world. If you want to become an academician, you need to vote. At that time, those who do not deal with him can justifiably veto it if they say that he is still too young. Him, don't vote for him.

So for now, Lin Xiao has never considered that he can become an academician, let alone an academician of the two academies. There are so many academicians in Huaguo, and there are only more than [-] academicians who are also academicians of the two academies. .

Hearing Lin Xiao's answer, Zheng Cheng was taken aback for a moment, shook his head, sighed, and turned to talk about other things, "I won't talk about this, but it's really disgusting that you haven't been judged for the Nobel Prize this year."

Lin Xiao shook his head and didn't care, "You see, I have all the lithography machines out now, do I still dare to attend the Nobel Prize award ceremony?"

Xu Yan next to him couldn't help asking: "I haven't heard of anyone being arrested for attending an awards ceremony."

Lin Xiao smiled, but did not answer.

Zheng Cheng answered for Lin Xiao: "Professor Lin is not one of those ordinary award winners. Just relying on Professor Lin's words a few days ago to make the Americans withdraw their plan, this is considered a strategic effect."

Lin Xiao laughed again, and then said: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about these awards or not, first eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables."

Then several people continued to taste the dishes of this high-end restaurant.

When he was about to eat, Lin Xiao suddenly asked, "Speaking of which, how is your research on superconductors going?"

"The research status of superconductors."

Zheng Cheng spread his hands, "It's still half-dead. Now we haven't figured out the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Even now, there are fewer people studying superconductors than before. Condensed matter physics, although superconductors are the biggest project. , but no one can see the hope of success, so a lot of people have switched to other materials."

Hearing this, Lin Xiao couldn't help but smiled: "That's true."

"Hehe, Xu Yan and I also felt that there was really nothing to study, and wondered whether we should change the direction. For example, there are quite a lot of researches on Bose-Einstein condensate. This stuff is very interesting. In June this year, " Isn’t there a paper in Science that used Bose-Einstein condensates to create a continuous time crystal.”

"That paper, I've heard it too."

Lin Xiao nodded. The term time crystal is not unique to fantasy novels. It also exists in physics. In short, this thing, Poincaré regression, and closed class curves are all regarded as the end of the universe. and start.

Xu Yan said at this time: "However, after Professor Lin came out with your theory of electronic topological bonding, there are now quite a lot of people studying superconductors, especially topological superconductors."

"In the past, there were relatively few people who studied topological superconductors. Originally, a large number of people were studying superconductivity under high pressure, as well as that magic-angle graphene. After your electron topological bonding theory appeared, it became topological superconductivity. It brings a certain theoretical basis."

Lin Xiao nodded: "I know this too, and that's why I asked you this matter."

Zheng Cheng couldn't help showing surprise: "Professor Lin, are you now interested in superconductors again?"

Lin Xiao shrugged: "Anyway, it's okay for the time being, and it's okay to study it."

Zheng Cheng smiled and said, "Then it seems that we have to change direction as soon as possible. If this problem falls into Professor Lin's hands, it might be solved after a while."

Lin Xiao couldn't help laughing, "This is a superconductor, but it doesn't mean that it will be successful if it succeeds."

Zheng Cheng said very decisively: "Damn, you have produced such things as RDX pure silicon crystals, and superconductors, maybe you have also produced them. You know, the whole world wants to know how RDX pure silicon crystals are made. from."

Xu Yan next to her looked at her husband like Lin Xiao's fanatical fan, and shook her head helplessly.

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hands: "These two are not the same thing, and they cannot be discussed together."

Of course, in his mind, RDX pure silicon crystals and superconductors should be comparable in research difficulty.

After all, RDX pure silicon crystal needs a wave coherent superposition equation to play a role in it.

However, having said that, superconductors, especially high-temperature superconductors and room-temperature superconductors, are really difficult to study.

Among them, as long as the room temperature superconductor is born and the production cost is low enough, the energy structure of the whole world will undergo tremendous changes.

After all, energy is a sign of a civilization level.

Of course, superconductors can only be regarded as energy transportation technologies. However, since electric energy is the most important form of energy in today's human society, superconductors can transport electric energy without loss, so its importance goes without saying.

Thinking about it, Lin Xiao frowned, and asked in his heart: "How many truth points are needed for the system, room temperature superconductor material and preparation method, and the cost is within an acceptable range?"

System: "According to the current situation of the host, 500 truth points are required to exchange for a room-temperature superconductor material with an affordable cost and its preparation method."

"500 truth points!"

Lin Xiao suddenly cheered up, because he can fully exchange it!
It's even a room-temperature superconductor!
What is a room temperature superconductor?
That is something that can directly let Huaguo take off!
Huaguo's wire transmission system can be said to be the most complicated in the world. After all, it is to be delivered to the homes of 14 billion people in the country, and among Huaguo's high population, there are only 400 million people without electricity. Compared with the nearly [-] million people without electricity in Asan next door, Huaguo can do this, and the total length of the transmission lines has reached about a quarter of the total length of the world's transmission lines.

The wires are basically made of copper, and a few lines also use aluminum. Obviously, these two materials have a certain resistivity at room temperature. Then recall the resistance formula, resistance=resistivity*conductor length/ cross-sectional area.

Huaguo's long transmission line, although it is calculated in sections, the power loss caused by its resistance is as high as more than 1000 billion kWh per year, which is more than the annual power generation of the Three Gorges Power Station.

Once the lines are replaced with room-temperature superconductors, these losses will become a thing of the past, and all substations can be saved. After the electricity is generated from the power station, it is directly input into each household.

In addition, a lot of power generation costs can be saved, and a lot of coal imported from abroad can be saved every year.

As for the role of room temperature superconductors in other aspects, let alone superconducting energy storage devices, particle colliders, etc., including the development of quantum computers, superconductors can also be used.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao almost didn't exchange directly.

However, he soon calmed down. This is 500 truth points, which is still too expensive, and there is no need to exchange them directly.

It would be better for him to study it first.

And he kept the truth, thinking that if there is an emergency in the future, he will use it later. If there is no emergency now, he might as well study it himself first.

Seeing the change in his expression, Zheng Cheng next to him said, "Professor Lin, if you are really interested in superconductors, why don't you come to our laboratory sometime?"

Hearing Zheng Cheng's proposal, Lin Xiao thought about it, and then said with a smile: "Okay, I'm happy to go."

Compared with the National Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, the relevant experimental equipment in his institute is still somewhat lacking.

After all, it is a national laboratory. Although it is still under preparation and not fully completed, the national laboratory is still different from the national key laboratory. The status of the former is higher than that of the latter.

Seeing that Lin Xiao agreed, Zheng Cheng smiled and said, "Then I'm looking forward to your arrival. I believe our laboratory would also like to see you coming. Would you like to come and give a report or something?"

"That's a good suggestion." Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Don't say that I used to prostitute your experimental equipment for nothing."

Both of them laughed immediately.

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At this point in the chat, the meal was almost finished, so they didn't stay any longer and left the restaurant together.

And since Lin Xiao said that he would go to their condensed matter physics laboratory to take a look, there was no nonsense. After returning, he directly contacted the person in charge of the laboratory, Fang Zhong.

Fang Zhong is an academician of the Academy of Sciences, and he is the director of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since the condensed matter physics laboratory also belongs to the Institute of Physics, he also serves as the director of the condensed matter physics laboratory.

When he learned that Lin Xiao was coming to communicate and planned to give a report, he couldn't help being pleasantly surprised.

Then he learned that the report that Lin Xiao planned to give was about the theory of electronic topological bonding, which made him even more pleasantly surprised.

You must know that since Lin Xiao proposed the theory of electronic topological bonding, he has not given a report on it. This time he came to them to give a report, but it was the first time!
So the Institute of Physics began to arrange intensively, making preparations for Lin Xiao's arrival.

In this way, time passed quickly, and the day came when Lin Xiao visited.

(End of this chapter)