Great Power

As the time entered April, the weather in Manhattan was contrary to the cold of last year. The spring sea breeze from time to time swept across the horizon and poured into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zheng Jianguo, who got out of the car, looked up at the rising sun.

Zheng Jianguo wore a relatively simple dress today. Out of habit, he put on a piece of autumn clothes and a sweater. I remember that when this dress was a bit cold yesterday, Valentin Levine in the distance had already appeared from the corridor: "Hi , Zheng, here I am~"

"The weather looks good today—"

A few steps to the door of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Zheng Jianguo finished talking to Valentin Levin with curiosity, and the latter glanced at him curiously, then tilted his head and said, "An expert said yesterday. This summer may be very hot, because the highest temperature was only 20 degrees at this time last year. Yesterday’s weather forecast said Manhattan might reach 25 degrees today. If you look at this data, then the highest temperature this summer will be the hottest value last year. If you increase it by 5 degrees, it will exceed 40 degrees Celsius—"

"Well, that's still really hot—"

Thinking of the busy days these days, Zheng Jianguo knew that even if he was watching TV, he was going to watch some financial news, and the Plymouth car radio he drove broke down, so he didn’t have much chance to listen to it. I didn’t come here to discuss the weather: "Mr. Levin, I wonder how you thought about my last proposal—"

"I asked you to come here this time to talk about this, please inside please—"

Levin rubbed his hands as he spoke, raised his hand with a nervous expression, and made a gesture of please. Zheng Jianguo followed his hand into the corridor: "I believe that no one can offer a better one than me. Conditions, you only need to report a number to me, and then you will be responsible for everything else—"

"Although "Cell" magazine was founded by me, she can't do without all the members of the magazine now. So after communicating with them, they added a new article in addition to the previous conditions of Zheng you—"

Valentin Levin took a few steps in front of Zheng Jianguo. He pushed open the door with the words "Cell" and looked at the staff inside Qiqi. He rubbed his hands again and said, "They I want to hear your assurance in person that, except for reviewing all the articles you requested, the magazine's other management rights are as usual, and then we will work hard to make "Cell" an authoritative journal comparable to "Nature" and "Science" ——"

In the dimly lit office where Zheng Jianguo had been there twice, there was a chandelier on the ceiling that flickered. I don't know if the ballast is broken or what caused it.

At this moment, under these lights, Zheng Jianguo greeted the seven or eight staff who were dressed and behaved casually and spoke: "Hello everyone, this is Zheng Jianguo. I think you know me more or less, but the most recent ones. It’s from your boss that I heard that I want to be your boss. Yes, Mr. Valentin Levin is right, I want to be the boss of Cell Magazine.

But the real reason why I want to be your boss is that I am very optimistic about the vision of Mr. Valentin Levin, so after I decided to buy the "Cell" magazine, he will still be responsible for the management and operation of the magazine, including I can assure you of management rights including personnel and finance."

"Buzzing—"

When Zheng Jianguo's voice fell, there were whispers in the office. Fortunately, after seven or eight people nodded to indicate agreement, the voice quickly disappeared, and he continued to speak: "As for myself, there must be someone listening. The news that I graduated from Harvard Medical School, but that is already in the past.

At present, I have become a resident in the emergency room in the MD and PhD joint training program of Massachusetts General Hospital, so I will choose Cell Magazine as the only journal that will publish my medical research results in the future. Thank you everyone."

"Zheng, will you still conduct research on Helicobacter?"

The editor-in-chief Eagle Angelis took a few steps and said that Zheng Jianguo knew that his guarantee was effective. The current "Cell" magazine can be regarded as little-known, not to mention that it is in the world. The influence of the insider, even in Boston, few people have heard of this magazine.

So if Zheng Jianguo publishes the research on Helicobacter in this journal in the future, doctors will pay attention to gastrointestinal diseases in medicine alone, and the effect will naturally be what he wants: "Yes, I am currently planning to update Shan Pylorus. The detection method of Helicobacter starts from its pathogenic mechanism. Of course, considering that I am still an adjunct associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Laboratory, I am afraid I will have to wait some time for the results in this area—"

"Zheng, really?"

Valentin Levin was stunned and looked at Zheng Jianguo blankly just like the others. The latter also nodded and said: "Yes, after I left you last time, I was invited by Professor Thomas. I joined the Physics Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I came here today to register."

"Then sit in there for a while?"

Valentin Levin came back to his senses, and then he looked at the editor Iger Angelis next to him, and listened to Zheng Jianguo saying: "Sit down, don’t sit down. You can collect opinions here. Let’s go back. When we meet again, I will call the lawyer to sign an agreement."

"Well, I'll take you to the door."

Valentin Levin glanced at Eagle Angles next to him, and then the two of them took Zheng Jianguo to the door and shook hands as a goodbye. Eagle Angles watched him get in the car. The back figure said: "It would be great if Zheng Neng won the Nobel Prize--"

"I think it will happen sooner or later, and this is the reason why I promised him. He is so big now. You read his review last time. You want to advocate the world to decipher the genetic information of the human body. —"

Valentin Levin, who was full of exclamation, patted Eagle Angels on the shoulder, and continued to speak before he could answer: "Let’s go in, let’s go in and talk to them again, now everyone can Don't worry--"

"I thought he was fooling you, but I didn't expect to really state that he shouldn't have management rights. Of course, when signing the agreement later, would you like to find a lawyer to help you?"

Eagle Angels’ big face first showed joy, and then he expressed his thoughts with a worried expression on his face. Valentine Levin shook his head and said: "This is not necessary, anyway, I have You have so many witnesses, besides, I don’t think he looks like that kind of person—"

In the few contacts between Valentin Levin and Zheng Jianguo, his perception of this "magic kid" from the East has undergone some changes. From the beginning, the other party responded to his own without hesitation. After asking, let me think that the other party is just a pure-minded young person, in the last review and talk, he revealed his sober cognition of his own value——

This is someone who knows what he wants and can figure out a way to get it!

Valentin Levin needed to take advantage of Zheng Jianguo's enthusiasm. For this reason, he did not hesitate to go out in person in order to let him serve as a reviewer for the magazine. However, after the incident, he did not expect that others would be willing to provide comprehensive support from economics to research , And asked him to continue to serve as the president of the magazine with full power and generous terms-of course his extremely special conditions came up when he thought of this.

What are the benefits of referring to other people's articles?

When Valentin Levin was troubled by the questions in his mind, Zheng Jianguo was accompanied by Thomas into the MIT Physics Laboratory. After introducing himself, he said his first request: "Everyone So far, I have given me a copy of the article about the atomic graphite layer so that I can understand everyone’s current understanding and progress on the atomic graphite layer. Of course, this article is just for me and she will not appear in Various magazines report the above, I will return it to you after reading it, thank you."

"Okay, Professor Zheng!"

In an office of 70 or 80 square meters, the young men and women lined up in two rows with a total of twelve people all responded. Thomas next to him watched that he had nothing to say, and then patted his hands and said, "Okay. Well, everyone will give him the article requested by Professor Zheng as soon as possible, and the rest will continue to be studied according to the current progress, and the meeting will now be over."

"Ulrika isn't here yet—"

A faint thought flashed in his mind. Zheng Jianguo took his gaze away from the 12 researchers who were leaving. At present, this is the largest research team he has contacted. Of course, considering that the two-dimensional materials science belongs to solid-state physics. Cutting-edge hotspots, then it is natural for MIT to pay attention to it. After thinking about that, turning his head and looking at Thomas next to him, he couldn't help but smile: "Professor? Are you smiling at me?"

"Oh, Zheng, you should call me Thomas, now we are in a colleague relationship, not a teacher-student relationship before—"

Touching the slightly shiny forehead, Thomas said with a smile with his arms around his arms. The smile on his face narrowed for a few minutes before he glanced at the whiteboard next to him and said: "The laboratory is currently targeting other two-dimensional Research on materials, presumably Harvard University is the same, the hypothesis you mentioned at the March meeting last time, do you have any ideas for further research?"

"A two-dimensional material twisted into a three-dimensional structure?"

Zheng Jianguo subconsciously glanced at the whiteboard on which a lot of things were written, and found that most of them were old things. He couldn't help but raised his head and pointed at the back of the whiteboard and curiously said, "Is this the latest?"

"Yes, this is the latest progress—"

Thomas looked at Zheng Jianguo as if he didn't understand what he meant, and he went to the blackboard next to him and said: "If you want to write two-dimensional materials that are twisted into a three-dimensional structure, you can ask them to use the materials they currently have. Do follow-up research—"

"No, this hypothesis was just an idea that came up when I saw the post-it note, but for us, even if it proves it, it doesn’t make much sense. , I think it will lose the unique characteristics of two-dimensional materials."

Zheng Jianguo now understands what Thomas wants to do. Of course, this is also the fundamental reason why he tried his best not to allow domestic research in this area. After decades, the whole world is burning money to carry out research in this area, but none of the materials have entered industrialization. Production, graphene batteries alone can only be used as toys in the laboratory.

As for letting the American laboratory burn money to increase his experience value, Zheng Jianguo certainly would not let go of this point. Leaning against someone's desk and looking at the whiteboard and blackboard, he also looked at Thomas: "We all know that the quantum Hall effect on the atomic-grade graphite layer, in addition to the integer and fractional charges, electrons also have another unique characteristic-rotation."

"Oh, you said I wrote--"

Thomas turned around and picked up the pen to write what Zheng Jianguo had said on the blackboard, then turned to him and said to him for instructions. The latter nodded and continued: "Then it can be said that materials with normal electronic structure can It interacts with the electric field, and will eventually appear the quantum spin Hall effect in the two-dimensional material?"

"You are using the term two-dimensional materials instead of atomic graphite layers?"

The chalk stopped quickly on the blackboard. Thomas pointed his finger at the word "atomic graphite layer" he wrote, and he saw Zheng Jianguo point his finger to the whiteboard next to him, nodded and said: "Since the laboratory has already been opened For the research of other two-dimensional materials, I think it is more appropriate to use the term two-dimensional materials. Of course, my previous idea refers to atomic-grade graphite layers—"

"Oh--"

Subconsciously glanced at the whiteboard, Thomas turned around and erased the words he had written with approval on his face. After waiting, he wrote the two-dimensional material on it, and then quickly stepped back two steps to look at the above hypothesis, but his mind Started to run at high speed, but didn’t want to start the association, the surprised expression appeared on the surface: “That is to say, it can get a kind of rotating drive and conductivity with almost no energy loss! Zheng, your focus is always Out of the ordinary-the spin Hall effect of quantum?"

"Thank you for the compliment. If you really find this kind of material under the quantum spin Hall effect, then you can imagine that this will be a brand new state of matter, so when it comes to solid-state physics in our field, we can be considered solid. The boundary of physics, if we use this term to describe the content of our research, some words will not be meaningful--"

Reminiscent of the name of this science in the future, Zheng Jianguo also burned a lot of brain cells. No one in his memory used the term solid state physics for a long time, and he switched to condensed matter physics instead. Of course he did this. It was not known that the reason for the change in the name was due to the development of condensed matter theory.

Since the quantum spin Hall state is a completely new state of matter, the theory of condensed matter usually classifies the state of matter according to the symmetry breaking principle, so the quantum Hall state including the former belongs to no spontaneous symmetry. The broken state of matter is very different from the ordinary state of matter.

The difference between the quantum spin Hall state and the quantum Hall state is that it does not require an external magnetic field, so it also maintains the time reversal symmetry. Of course, this is not known to Thomas including Zheng Jianguo. : "How do you feel?"