Chapter 237

In April, the weather in Manhattan turned against the cold of last year. The spring sea breeze overflowed the horizon and poured into MIT from time to time. Zheng Jianguo, who got out of the car, looked up at the rising sun.

Zheng Jianguo's clothes today are relatively simple. Out of habit, it's a suit of autumn clothes and thread clothes. I remember that when it was a little cold yesterday, Valentine Levin in the distance appeared from the corridor: "Hi, Zheng, I'm here ~"

"The weather seems fine today -"

A few steps to the door of MIT Press, Zheng Jianguo said curiously to Valentine Levin. The latter looked at him curiously and tilted his head: "yesterday, an expert said that this summer might be very hot, because the highest temperature at this time last year was only 20 degrees. Yesterday's weather forecast said that Manhattan might reach 25 degrees today, According to this data, the highest temperature this summer is an increase of 5 degrees above last year's maximum calorific value, which will exceed 40 degrees Celsius -- "

"Well, it's still really hot -"

Remembering the busy days these days, Zheng Jianguo knew that even when he was watching TV, he always went to see some financial news. The radio of his Plymouth car broke down, so he didn't have any chance to listen. Of course, he came in advance to discuss the weather: "Mr. Levin, I don't know what you thought of my last proposal --"

"That's what I asked you to come over this time. Please come inside -"

Levin rubbed his hands, raised his hand nervously and made an invitation gesture. Zheng Jianguo followed his hand into the corridor: "I believe no one can offer more favorable conditions than me. Just give me a number, and then you'll be responsible for everything else -"

"Although I founded cell magazine, she can't live without all the members of the current magazine, so after my communication with them, they added another one in addition to your previous conditions --"

Valentin Levin took a few steps ahead of Zheng Jianguo, pushed open the door with the words "cell" magazine, looked at the staff inside, rubbed his hands again and said, "they want to hear your guarantee, that is, in addition to reviewing all the articles you asked, the other management rights of the magazine are the same as before, Then we will strive to build cell magazine into an authoritative journal comparable to nature and science -- "

In the dark office where Zheng Jianguo has been twice, one of the chandeliers on the ceiling flickers. I don't know whether the ballast is broken or why.

At this time, under these lights, Zheng Jianguo opened his mouth to seven or eight casually dressed staff: "Hello, I'm Zheng Jianguo. You must know me more or less, and the most recent understanding is from your boss's mouth that I want to be your boss. Yes, Mr. Valentine 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. Valentine Levin, so after I decided to buy cell magazine, he will still be responsible for the management and operation of the magazine, including personnel and finance. I can assure you. "

"Buzzing, buzzing -"

Zheng Jianguo's voice fell, and there was a whisper in the office. Fortunately, after seven or eight people nodded to each other to express their agreement, the voice soon disappeared. He continued to say, "as for me, I think someone has heard that I graduated from Harvard Medical School, but that's a thing of the past.

At present, I have become a resident in the emergency room of the MD and PhD joint training program of Massachusetts General Hospital, so I will choose cell magazine as the only journal to publish my medical research results in the future. Please take care of it in the future. "

"Zheng, will you study Helicobacter?"

Editor in chief Iger angulis took a few quick steps and said that Zheng Jianguo knew that his guarantee was effective. The current cell magazine is unknown, not to mention its worldwide influence. Even in Boston, few people have heard of it.

If Zheng Jianguo published the research on Helicobacter pylori in this journal, doctors will pay attention to gastrointestinal diseases in medicine alone, and the effect is naturally what he wants: "yes, at present, I am planning to update the detection methods of Helicobacter pylori, that is, starting from its pathogenic mechanism, Of course, considering that I am also a part-time associate professor in the Physics Laboratory of MIT, I'm afraid I'll have to wait for some time -- "

"Zheng, really?"

Valentine Levin was stunned and looked at Zheng Jianguo like others. The latter also nodded and said, "yes, last time I left you, I joined the Physics Laboratory of MIT at the invitation of Professor Thomas. I came here to report today."

"Why don't you sit inside for a while?"

Valentine Levin regained his mind, then looked at the editor Iger angulis next to him, and listened to Zheng Jianguo say, "sit or don't sit. Collect your opinions here, and we'll meet again later. I'll call the lawyer and we'll sign an agreement."

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

Valentin Levin glanced at Iger angulis next to him. Then they took Zheng Jianguo to the door and shook hands. As a farewell, Iger angulis looked at his back on the bus and said, "if only Zheng could get the Nobel Prize -"

"I think it's a matter of time, and that's why I promised him. He's so famous now. Last time you read his summary and wanted to suggest the world to crack the genetic information of the human body -"

The sighing Valentin Levin patted Iger angulis on the shoulder. Before he could answer, he continued, "let's go in and talk to them again. Now everyone can rest assured -"

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

Iger angulis's big face first showed joy, then expressed his thoughts with worry, and saw Valentine Levin shaking his head and said, "it's not necessary. Anyway, I have so many witnesses. Besides, I don't think he's like that kind of person -"

In the few contacts between Valentine Levin and Zheng Jianguo, his perception of this "magic boy" from the East has changed. From the beginning, the other party did not hesitate to meet his own requirements and let himself think that the other party is just a young man with simple mind, His sober understanding of his own value was revealed in the last review and speech——

This is a person who knows what he wants and can think of a way to get it!

Valentine Levin needed to rub Zheng Jianguo's enthusiasm. Therefore, he did not hesitate to go out in person in order to let him serve as the reviewer of the magazine. However, after the success, he did not expect that others were willing to provide all-round support from economy to research, and asked him to continue to serve as the president of the magazine with full and generous conditions - of course, his extremely special conditions came out.

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

When Valentine Levin was troubled by the questions in his mind, Zheng Jianguo, accompanied by Thomas, entered the Physics Laboratory of MIT and said his "OK, Professor Zheng!"

In the 70-80 square office, two rows of young men and women with a full number of 12 people answered. Thomas next to him saw that he had nothing to say, so he photographed his hands and said, "well, please give him the article required by Professor Zheng as soon as possible. The rest will continue to study according to the current progress. Now the meeting is over."

"Ulrika is not here --"

A faint thought flashed through his mind. Zheng Jianguo's eyes took back his eyes from the researchers who were leaving. At present, this is the largest research team he has contacted. Of course, considering that two-dimensional material science is a frontier hotspot in solid physics, it is natural for MIT to pay attention to it. After thinking about it, he turned to Thomas next to him, Can't help laughing: "Professor? Are you smiling at me? "

"Oh, Zheng, you should call me Thomas. Now we are colleagues, not teachers and students -"

After touching some shiny forehead, Thomas said with a smile in his arms. After a few minutes, he looked at the whiteboard next to his eyes and said, "at present, the laboratory is studying other two-dimensional materials. It must be the same in Harvard University. Do you want to study the hypothesis you said at the last March meeting?"

"Two dimensional material twisted into a three-dimensional structure?"

Zheng Jianguo subconsciously looked at the whiteboard that had written a lot of things and found that most of them were previous things. He couldn't help looking up and pointing to the back of the whiteboard. Now he said, "this is the latest?"

"Yes, this is the latest process -"

Thomas looked at Zheng Jianguo as if he didn't understand what he meant, so he went to the blackboard next to him and said, "if you want to write the two-dimensional materials twisted into a three-dimensional structure on it, you can let them do follow-up research on the materials in hand."

"No, this assumption was just the idea that I came up with when I saw the note paper, but even if it was proved, it doesn't make sense for us. It's like deceiving ourselves and others, because if it is really proved that it distorts to a three-dimensional structure, 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 the fundamental reason why he does not want domestic research in this field. Decades later, the world is burning money to carry out research in this field, but no material has entered industrial production, and the graphene battery alone can only be used as a toy in the laboratory.

As for letting American laboratories burn money to increase their experience value, Zheng Jianguo will certainly not let go of this. Leaning against an unknown desk, looking at the whiteboard and the blackboard, he looked at Thomas: "we all know that the quantum Hall effect on the atomic graphite layer, in addition to the charges with integers and fractions, Electrons also have another distinctive characteristic - rotation. "

"Oh, you said I wrote --"

Thomas turned and took up his pen to write what Zheng Jianguo said on the blackboard. Then he turned to ask him for instructions. The latter nodded and continued: "then can it be said that materials with normal electronic structure can interact with the electric field, and eventually there will be the quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional materials?"

"You use the word two-dimensional material, not atomic graphite?"

The chalk quickly stopped on the blackboard. Thomas pointed to the word "atomic graphite layer" written by himself. He saw Zheng Jianguo pointing to the white board next to him, nodding and saying, "given that the laboratory has carried out research on other two-dimensional materials, I think it is more appropriate to use two-dimensional materials, Of course, my previous idea was to refer to the atomic graphite layer -- "

"Oh -"

Subconsciously glanced at the whiteboard, Thomas showed his approval on his face, turned around and erased his words. When he got up, he wrote the two-dimensional materials on it, then quickly stepped back and looked at the above assumptions. His mind began to run at a high speed, but he didn't want to start the Association. He was surprised: "that's to say, In this way, a rotating drive with little energy loss can be obtained! Zheng, your focus is always different - quantum spin Hall effect? "

"Thank you for your compliment. If we really find the material under the quantum spin Hall effect, we can imagine that it will be a new state of matter. As far as solid-state physics in our field is concerned, we have touched the boundary of solid-state physics. If we use this method to describe the content of our research, it will be a bit vague -"

Zheng Jianguo burned a lot of brain cells when he remembered the name of this science in the future. In his memory, no one had used the term solid physics for a long time, but they all replaced it with condensed matter physics. Of course, he didn't know that the change in the name was brought about by the development of condensed matter theory.

Because the quantum spin Hall state is a new material state, and the condensed state theory usually classifies the material state according to the symmetry breaking principle, the quantum Hall state including the former belongs to the material state without spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is very different from the ordinary material state.

The difference between quantum spin Hall state and quantum Hall state is that it does not need an external magnetic field, so it also maintains the symmetry of time inversion. Of course, Thomas, including Zheng Jianguo, does not know: "what do you think?"