Chapter 850 The Second Key to the Future

No matter how much impassioned words are said, they are empty.

Although everyone is a scientific researcher, scientific research must be based on feelings, but human beings must be well-balanced.

It is true that scientific research talks about feelings, but feelings cannot be eaten. The meat must be eaten by the employer Xingkong Technology and Jinling Advanced Research Institute, but it is impossible to not even give people a sip of soup.

Lu Zhou can't do this kind of thing, and it's impossible to do it.

At the end of the speech, looking at the excited scientific research dogs, Lu Zhou immediately gave everyone a one-week long vacation, and said that he would let the finance side give everyone in the project team a bonus of at least 100,000 yuan. And take out a total of 20 million bonuses to reward outstanding contributors in the research.

If the first half of the sentence just blows people's hearts away...

Then, when it comes to the second half of the speech about rewards for meritorious deeds, the entire laboratory seems to have dropped a cloud bomb, and every inch of air is ignited with boiling enthusiasm...

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It had been five minutes since he came out of the laboratory, and Yang Xu still felt some pain in his eardrums.

After hearing the 20 million bonus, the researchers were so excited that they howled and even the glass trembled. Fortunately, the precision instruments are placed in another laboratory, otherwise I am afraid that this voice will scream out millions of dollars.

Poking his ear with his index finger, he, who was walking in the corridor with Lu Zhou, hesitated for a moment and asked.

"Will twenty million be too much?"

If it is not for key national projects or a large amount of investment from enterprises, the funding that general engineering academicians can apply for is about the same amount, which is still higher.

A 20 million bonus will be distributed directly, even if ten people share it equally, one person can get 2 million.

What's more, there are only five or six real technical backbones.

Even when he was a postdoc at MIT, Yang Xu had never seen such a boss...

Lu Zhou: "Compared to the value they created, 20 million is just a fraction."

Yang Xu: "That's the case in theory, but I'm a little worried. The researchers in other project teams feel unbalanced after seeing it. And the bonus is too high at one time. If you want to give people blood in the future, the cost will also have to be paid." Then the price went up."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhou smiled and said indifferently.

"If you feel unbalanced, try to make some achievements. Jinling Institute for Advanced Study provides them with a relaxed scientific research environment. It is not for them to retire, but for them to spend more time on research."

"As for the bonus being too high at one time... Is this a problem? If they make even better achievements in the future, what's the point of me buying each of them a suite in the city center?"

"I just want the entire academic community to know that there is no such thing as hard work and hard work here. As long as I can produce enough valuable results, then I can't make him suffer."

Lu Zhou has always believed in this way, if the heroes who create knowledge and open up territories for the future of civilization are not worthy of making a fortune, then who else is worthy of making a fortune? Who else deserves to master social resources?

It's as if he has never shy away from the wealth he owns, and the fact that he lives in a luxury house and drives a luxury car.

Even if someone posted photos of the house he lived in on the Internet, or spread some unfounded rumors about the source of his assets, he never paid attention to it, or even took it seriously.

Why did everyone want to be a scientist when they were young, but they all dreamed of being a star singing and dancing when they grew up?

Sometimes, comrades in propaganda outlets should really reflect on it.

Although he was indeed slightly shocked by Lu Zhou's thoughts in his heart, as the director of the Institute of Computing Materials and a member of the council of the Institute for Advanced Study, Yang Xu still has to stand in the overall interests of the Institute for Advanced Study to consider this issue.

"What about theoretical research?"

"Research in the theoretical direction is not so easy to produce visible results, and it may not be economically beneficial. But if no one does it, our Institute of Computational Materials will not be able to achieve today's achievements."

"Do you know why MIT's Institute of Computational Materials has been unable to start? It's not because there is not enough money to poach people, but because their materials major is too strong! It is so strong that a Ph.D. who studies computational materials is not following the boss of Silicon Valley. It’s time to warm up, that’s to switch careers to become a code farmer, or to engage in CAD!”

After listening to Yang Xu's heartfelt words, Lu Zhou was silent for a while.

"That's a problem."

However, he only thought about it for a few seconds.

"Theoretical research should also be encouraged."

"As long as the results are significant enough, they will be rewarded together."

Yang Xu: "..."

He has nothing else to say at this moment except for a sentence of inhumanity...

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In fact, Lu Zhou has always planned to set up a special prize for theoretical science at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, which is dedicated to rewarding breakthrough research in the fields of physics, mathematics, theoretical chemistry, and biology.

Otherwise, it would be a headache for him to spend so much money.

How about learning from Nobel in the future?

However, such a thing is still too far away for the time being.

How come, let's think about it after he has half a foot in the coffin.

Back in his office, Lu Zhou sat at his desk, thought for a while, and took out a few pieces of letter paper from the drawer.

The breakthrough in carbon-based transistor technology is of great importance. It is better to communicate with relevant departments first.

Of course, what really prompted Lu Zhou to write this letter was not just the breakthrough in carbon-based chip research.

It is because the significance and value of carbon-based transistor technology is far from simply widening the theoretical lower limit of the chip manufacturing process by an order of magnitude, and it is also the introduction of graphene materials such as topological insulators and specific temperature characteristics. to the semiconductor industry.

According to theoretical predictions, zero-energy Majorana fermions will be formed in the vortex core region on the interface between a three-dimensional topological insulator and a superconductor, and this feature may realize topological quantum computing.

what does that mean?

This means that we have not only opened up a new battlefield in the chip industry, but also created the possibility to use Majorana fermions or Majorana Fermions to construct topological qubits!

In layman's terms, it opens the door to a new world for the research of quantum computers!

As a scholar who once won a Nobel Prize for his research in the field of materials, Lu Zhou saw through the higher value hidden behind carbon-based transistors at a glance.

If the continuous reduction of chip manufacturing technology is just icing on the cake, then the realization of topological quantum computing will have a subversive impact on the entire modern electronics industry and even the entire modern civilization!

After writing more than 2,000 words eloquently, Lu Zhou folded the letter paper destined to change the world, stuffed it into an envelope, and put it on the corner of his desk. He planned to hand it to Wang Peng when he went downstairs to let him Ask someone to send it to Shangjing.

If controllable nuclear fusion is the first key to the future, then quantum computers are the second.

Very lucky and very honored.

This key is also in his hands.