Chapter 548: This is the feeling of falling from heaven to hell

April 30th.

Xu Qingzhou is still buried in the equipment list, intending to get at least three sets of plans out. Song Yao will only return on May 1st.

Zero Point Technology, responsible by Ross, had already formed its own tax and legal team, and now, according to Xu Qingzhou's instructions, is recruiting a team to buy equipment.

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

The atmosphere in the office is warm, and everyone has a trace of excitement on their faces.

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

In front of the office, Professor Maxwell, whose temples are a bit gray, leans against the wooden table, checking the characterization test report in front of him.

Below, researchers chat comfortably.

"Where is Price planning to play tomorrow?"

"Have to go to California with my wife, sigh, you know, middle-aged women who are old are just unable to be idle."

"My suggestion, you should buy your beautiful wife a bag, maybe she won't pester you to travel."

"Then I'd rather choose to travel."

Half an hour passed.

Professor Maxwell closed the test report in front of him, glanced at his watch, 6 PM, just in time for the meeting, his gaze looked at the seat on the left which was empty.

Moved back again, landing on the thin young man: "Hey, young man, where is your Professor Luo Sen?"

The experiment can progress so smoothly, statistics expert Professor Luo Sen contributed a lot, and he should be here to witness this important moment even more.

The young man called "Burton" glanced at his phone and said helplessly: "I just called Professor Luo Sen, no one answered."

"I guess, maybe he found a place to drink and celebrate alone, we can hold the meeting first, and then pull him to have a drink at the wine party tonight."

The one speaking was one of the team leaders, condensed matter expert Clan Xavier, smiling.

Maxwell nodded upon hearing this. Professor Luo Sen is not the first time to be absent from the meeting, this time is not special. People who study mathematics have some strange and stubborn personalities.

He knocked on the table, seeing the office quiet and everyone's gaze on him, then said: "Alright, gentlemen, keep your passion for the wine party later. After 1.5 months of struggle, we successfully made our product's JC performance reach 3.2×10⁴ A/cm², and other indicators can reach the standard. Most importantly, it is almost at the level of mass production!"

The office rang with warm applause and everyone's cheers.

Maxwell smiled faintly, "Next month, the goal is to stabilize various performances and find new breakthroughs. Houston, your group can start applying for patents, we must strive to finish this project within 3 months."

"No problem!" By the window, a middle-aged man in a suit responded.

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

"If you say so, the celebration wine tonight should really invite Professor Xu to taste it."

The office intertwined with everyone's light laughter.

Saying this is actually not wrong. If it weren't for Xu Qingzhou suddenly popping up, like holding a gun to everyone's head, they probably couldn't have completed this seemingly impossible task.

Maxwell didn't commit, and continued: "We only used one month to create a great miracle. Here, everyone has contributed. Alright, don't nag anymore, everyone will dislike me for being wordy. Work matters will be discussed after the holiday, tonight's most important thing, wine party."

"Don't return until drunk!"

Just when someone whistled, Professor Luo Sen walked in with a stack of documents.

Moreover, the expression is completely out of place with those sitting.

"Everyone, although I really don't want to disturb your interest, the celebration meeting may have to be delayed again."

2 minutes passed, the office was in dead silence, forming a sharp contrast with the liveliness just now, quiet and incomparably weird.

Leader Professor Maxwell was calm.

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

It was 2.5×10⁴ A/cm² in March.

Now it's only April, and JC performance has improved by 40%. This is fundamentally an impossible task.

As everyone knows, once entering the commercial grade, the improvement of superconducting thin film performance is harder than ascending to heaven, and it is rare to see such a situation where it improves by more than half directly.

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

"Is this data too perfect?"

Luo Sen sighed, his tone full of exclamation, saying: "I checked the data, although limited, but there is no problem... No matter how you look at it, Xu Qingzhou doesn't need to lie for funds. Of course, it doesn't exclude that the other party's brain is broken."

Everyone felt a bolt from the blue. They were just planning to celebrate the new experimental results, now... cannot accept this news.

It's like falling from heaven to hell.

The huge office fell into silence again.

It was still Professor Maxwell who recovered first, clapped his hands, and comforted: "Alright, everyone, although Xu Qingzhou's product is far superior to ours in JC performance, this does not mean we failed. In terms of decoherence, our superconducting thin film still has a market."

Although there is no advantage, if you only compare decoherence, it is not useless...

This fifty-something old professor sighed in his heart.

Facing this young man who doesn't play cards according to common sense, there is a deep sense of powerlessness.

Friends in the mathematics field often tease that mathematics is a young man's game, which makes sense, but when did condensed matter become this situation?

Professor Maxwell secretly took a breath, adjusted his state. If their leader is defeated, the team is finished.

Their experimental progress is the norm.

Xu Qingzhou's research group... the speed is a bit weird.

He said in a deep voice: "Perhaps, we need to change the established goal and consider moving the superconducting thin film to the production line as soon as possible."

The field of superconducting thin film is already chaotic, who knows what will happen in the future. They use Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology, which can improve the coherence time of superconducting quantum bits from microsecond level to millisecond level.

Wait any longer, in case someone else pops up from somewhere and makes results similar to theirs, then everything is finished.

"I agree." Clan Xavier nodded, couldn't help but think of the last party, and still thought Professor Luo Sen's worry was too much. He smiled bitterly: "It seems that countless laboratories will lose sleep tonight."

"I have a hunch."

Luo Sen looked out the window, his gaze drifting away little by little, and continued: "Our world, maybe it will really change because of this young man."

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

Xu Qingzhou just won the Fields Medal, why did he retreat in a hurry, not doing mathematical research, but running to the physics field.

Now, the answer is already obvious.

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

Later, this 22-year-old young man turned his gun and aimed at the physics field.

Quantum mechanics, Higgs boson companion particles, and now superconducting thin film... this world seems to have not appeared such a brilliant figure for many years.

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