Chapter 444 Fusion Begins with Superconductivity

As the end of the month draws closer, another sensational event has occurred in the mathematics world recently, and its influence is not only in the academic world, but even spread beyond the academic world.

In the office of the Institute for Advanced Study, Hardy, who was sitting in front of the computer and browsing the conference information, was suddenly stunned after seeing the relevant news.

Immediately afterwards, he used a surprised voice and almost didn't shout out.

"Professor, I heard that the Riemann Hypothesis has been proven?!"

Lu Zhou: "Oh?"

As if he had discovered a new world, Hardy said excitedly: "I saw it on mathoverflow, it is said that Sir Michael Attia of the University of Cambridge claimed to have proved the Riemann conjecture in a very simple way, and he will be awarded in Heidelberg lectures on forums."

Mathoverflow is a well-known online mathematics community. Many experts in the mathematics field have their own accounts on it. For example, TAO God is very active on it. He not only updates his blog regularly, but also interacts with visitors frequently.

After hearing Hardy's words, Lu Zhou smiled, and said in a joking tone, without joking.

"If he does complete the proof, he will undoubtedly be the greatest mathematician of this century."

Hardy: "Do you like his proof?"

Lu Zhou didn't answer the question directly, but simply expressed his opinion.

"Sir Attia is an outstanding scholar, and he is a double winner of the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal, but the old man is now 89 years old... It is difficult to make a fair evaluation."

In fact, Attia is definitely not the first scholar who claims to have proved the Riemann Hypothesis.

As far as the academic world is concerned, in 2004, Professor de-Branges, a well-known scholar in the field of number theory, also claimed to have solved the Riemann conjecture, which caused quite a stir at the time, but unfortunately he did not Not recognized by the mathematics community.

If it had been earlier, even Hardy had claimed to have proved the conundrum.

Hardy hesitated, and continued: "But... he is Sir Atiyah, the double winner of the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal. If he is not fully sure, would he make such a claim?"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled, and said with a pleasant face: "My dear classmate Hardy, if you plan to become a scholar, then you must remember that medals are honor, but only honor. Or In other words, just because the mathematics community awarded him these two honors, he should respond to people's reasonable doubts, rather than dismissing people who doubt him as fools."

Facing Hardy's questioning gaze, Lu Zhou paused for a moment, then continued.

"And compared to the Riemann conjecture, I want to know Sir Attia's negative proof of whether there is a complex structure on the six-dimensional spherical surface S^6. How is the situation now?"

Hardy: "...the complex structure on the six-dimensional spherical surface S^6?"

Lu Zhou nodded: "This is a famous unresolved problem in the K-theory of algebraic topology. Although it is not a millennium problem, it is no less important in the field of algebraic topology. About 16 years ago , Sir Attia gave this proposition a negative answer, but the paper he produced was not satisfactory. Not only is the proof process in the true sense only half a page, but in the fourth part of the paper he even talked about the history of mathematics... ..."

Pausing for a moment, Lu Zhou shrugged and continued, "At least according to the news on Mathoverflow, he has not responded to people's doubts about him, and the academic community is also skeptical of his thesis."

The papers on the complex structure on the six-dimensional spherical S^6 can be found on Arxiv, this is not his nonsense.

Having "solved" a well-known difficult problem in K-theory, in less than two years, he solved one of the most important problems in the number theory field and even in the entire mathematics field...

Of course, Lu Zhou hoped that this was true, after all, those who do mathematics are more or less heroic.

But for this old man who is nearly ninety years old...

To be honest, he didn't hold out much hope.

Mathematics is a young subject, and there is no such thing as a healthy old age. Once people age, both memory and thinking ability will decline significantly.

Therefore, very few mathematicians can make outstanding achievements in their later years that are not inferior to those in their youth.

In short, no matter what the final result is, as long as the elderly are happy...

...

The Riemann Hypothesis is a very interesting subject, but it is not the most concerned issue of Lu Zhou at the moment.

After setting a attention tag on the report, he put the focus of his work back on the quest chain of Fusion Light.

The direct design of stellarator is too much work, and the quantum computer is still far away. After comprehensive consideration of various factors, he finally chose superconducting materials as the next topic.

To be honest, superconducting materials are not simple, but at present, this is the closest topic to his research field.

In the Flick Chemistry Laboratory, Lu Zhou met Connie.

Because of the cooperation project with Professor Pablo Herero, he has basically been visiting MIT for more than half a year, and he didn't come back until last week.

After seeing Connie, Lu Zhou asked straight to the point: "How is the superconducting material project going?"

"I can't give you an accurate result, but generally speaking, it went well." Connie continued, handing a USB flash drive to Lu Zhou, "I have written a summary report on the relevant research progress. , put it in the folder starting with C in the USB flash drive, I originally planned to send it to your mailbox."

After taking the USB drive from him, Lu Zhou nodded.

"I see, I'll see it later."

Seeing the serious expression on Lu Zhou's face, Connie said excitedly, "Professor, are you finally planning to make a move?"

Lu Zhou said briefly: "Well...for various reasons, I will shift the focus of my work from mathematics to the topic of superconducting materials."

As for why, of course he would not say.

After letting Connie go about his own affairs, Lu Zhou walked to the desk and sat down, inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, and opened the report written by Connie.

It took half an hour to quickly read the report, and Lu Zhou quickly had a general understanding of the progress of the project.

In short, the Pablo Jarillo-Herrero laboratory led by Professor Herrero is doing theory, mainly studying the symmetry, pseudogap, nematic phase and so on of this superconducting phase.

The Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and Sarot Laboratory are doing applications, mainly through a large number of experiments to find a method that can maintain this superconductivity under the condition of increasing the carrier concentration of graphene.

It has to be said that Professor Pablo Herrero is indeed worthy of being a master in the field of graphene. After receiving 10 million US dollars of financial support from Xingkong Technology, the research progress can be described as rapid progress.

With the help of these theoretical achievements, Jinling Institute of Computational Materials and Sarot Laboratory have also made many beautiful phased results in the field of application research.

However, there is still a long way to go before the final result.

After thinking about the images on the computer screen for a moment, Lu Zhou quickly had a clear understanding of what he needed to do.

What he is good at is calculating materials, using mathematical methods to find laws in materials science.

So for him, the first thing he needs to do is to establish a reliable mathematical model based on the data collected by the three laboratories for more than a year.

Secondly, in order to make this project faster, he needs more people.

For example, Professor Chiric is a good candidate...