Time entered April, the weather in Manhattan was different from last year's cold, the spring sea breeze overflowed the horizon from time to time and poured into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zheng Jianguo, who got off the car, looked up at the rising sun.

Zheng Jianguo is wearing a relatively simple dress today, out of habit, there is an autumn coat and a thread coat inside, I remember that when this dress was still a little cold yesterday, Valentin Levin in the distance had already appeared from the corridor: "Hi, Zheng, I'm here~"

"The weather seems to be nice today—"

After a few steps to the door of the MIT Press, Zheng Jianguo said to Valentin Levin with curiosity on his face, and the latter glanced at him curiously, tilted his head and said: "Yesterday, some experts said that this year's summer may be very hot, because the maximum temperature at this time last year was only 20 degrees, and yesterday's weather forecast said that Manhattan may reach 25 degrees today, according to this data, then the maximum temperature this summer is to increase by 5 degrees on the hottest value of last year, which will exceed 40 degrees Celsius——"

"Well, that's still really hot—"

Thinking of the busy time these days, Zheng Jianguo also knew that even if he watched TV, he was going to watch some financial news, and the radio of the Plymouth car he drove was broken, so he didn't have much chance to listen to it, of course, he came over in advance not to discuss the weather: "Mr. Levin, I don't know how you considered my proposal last time——"

"That's what I asked you to do this time, please come inside—"

Levin rubbed his hands as he spoke, raised his hand a little nervously and made a gesture of please, and Zheng Jianguo followed his hand into the corridor: "I believe that no one can offer more favorable conditions than me, you just need to give me a number, and then you will be responsible for the rest——"

"Although I founded the "Cell" magazine, she can't do without all the members of the current magazine, so after my communication with them, and then in addition to the previous conditions of Zheng You, they added another one——"

Valentin Levin took a few steps in front of Zheng Jianguo, pushed open the door with the words "Cell" magazine written on it, looked at the staff inside, rubbed his hands again, and said: "They want to hear your assurance, that is, except for the review of all the articles you requested, the other management rights of the magazine will remain the same, and then we will strive to make "Cell" magazine an authoritative journal comparable to "Nature" and "Science——"

In the dimly lit office where Zheng Jianguo has been here twice, there is still a chandelier on the ceiling flickering, I don't know if the ballast is broken or what the reason is.

At this time, under these lights, Zheng Jianguo opened his mouth in front of seven or eight casually dressed and wanton staff: "Hello everyone, I am Zheng Jianguo, I think you have a more or less understanding of me, and the latest understanding is from your boss, I heard that I want to be your boss." Yes, Mr. Valentin Levin is right, I want to be the owner of Cell magazine.

But the real reason why I want to be your boss is that I am very optimistic about Mr. Valentin Levin's vision, so I have decided to buy Cell Magazine, and he will still be in charge of the management and operation of the magazine, including personnel and finance, and I can assure you of that. ”

"Buzz—"

When Zheng Jianguo's words fell, there was a whisper in the office, but after seven or eight people nodded to each other in agreement, the voice quickly disappeared, and he continued to speak: "As for me, someone must have heard the news of my graduation from Harvard Medical School, but that is already in the past.

I am currently a resident in the emergency room of the joint MD and PhD training program at Massachusetts General Hospital, so I will choose Cell as the only journal to publish my research results in the future in medicine. ”

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

Editor-in-chief Eagle Angelis walked a few steps quickly, and Zheng Jianguo knew that his guarantee had an effect, and the current "Cell" magazine can be regarded as a little-known, not to mention its influence in the world, even in Boston, few people have heard of this magazine.

So if Zheng Jianguo publishes his research on Helicobacter pylori in this journal in the future, doctors in medicine alone will pay attention to it, and the effect will naturally be what he wants: "Yes, at present, I am planning to update the detection method of Helicobacter pylori, that is, from its pathogenic mechanism, of course, considering that I am still an adjunct associate professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Laboratory, I am afraid that the results in this area will have to wait for a while——"

"Zheng, really?"

Valentin Levin was stunned, looking at Zheng Jianguo blankly like everyone else, and the latter also nodded and said: "Yes, after I left from you last time, I joined the physics laboratory of MIT at the invitation of Professor Thomas, and I came here today to report." ”

"Shall we sit inside for a while?"

Valentin Levin came back to his senses, and then looked at the editor Igor Angelis next to him, and heard Zheng Jianguo say: "Sit down, don't sit down, you will collect opinions here, let's meet again when we go back, I will call the lawyer to sign an agreement." ”

"Alright, I'll take you to the door. ”

Valentin Levin glanced at Igor Anglis next to him, and then the two shook hands after sending Zheng Jianguo to the door as a farewell, and Eagles Angles looked at the back of him getting into the car and said, "It would be nice if Zheng could win the Nobel Prize-"

"I think it's a matter of time, and that's why I promised him, he's so famous now, you read his review last time, and I want to advocate the world to crack the genetic information of the human body-"

Valentin Levin, who was full of sighs, patted Eagle Angles on the shoulder as he spoke, and continued to speak without waiting for him to answer: "Let's go, 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 take a serious statement that you don't want to manage the right, of course, when you sign the agreement later, do you want to find a lawyer to help you take a look?"

Eagle Angelis's big face first showed joy, and then he said his thoughts with a worried face, and then saw Valentin Levin shake his head and said: "There is no need for this, anyway, I have so many witnesses from you, and besides, I don't think he is that kind of person-"

In the few contacts between Valentin Levin and Zheng Jianguo, his perception of this "wonder boy" from the East has undergone a change, from the beginning the other party did not hesitate to respond to his own requirements, so that he thought that the other party was just a simple-minded young man, and then revealed his sober understanding of his own value in the last review and speech-

This is someone who knows what they want and can figure out how to get it!

Valentin Levin needed to rub Zheng Jianguo's popularity, so he did not hesitate to go out in person, in order to let him serve as a reviewer of the magazine, but after the fact, he did not expect that people would be willing to provide all-round support from financial to research, and asked him to continue to serve as the president of the magazine on full and generous terms - of course, his extremely special conditions came out 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, accompanied by Thomas, entered the physics laboratory of MIT, and said his first request after introducing himself: "Everyone has given me a copy of the article on the atomic graphite layer in their hands so far, so that I can understand the current understanding and progress of the atomic graphite layer, of course, this article is only for me, she will not appear in various magazine reports, I will also return it to you after reading it, thank you." ”

"Okay, Professor Zheng!"

In the seventy or eighty square office, the young men and women lined up in two rows of twelve people answered in unison, and Thomas next to him saw that he had nothing to say, so he clapped his hands and said: "Okay, everyone hand over the article requested by Professor Zheng to him as soon as possible, and the rest will continue to study according to the current progress, and the meeting will be dismissed now." ”

"Ullica isn't here—"

A faint thought flashed in his mind, Zheng Jianguo's gaze retracted from the twelve researchers who were leaving, at present, this is the largest research team he has come into contact with, of course, considering that two-dimensional materials science is now a cutting-edge hot spot in solid state physics, then it is natural for MIT to pay attention to it, so thinking about it, he turned his head to look at Thomas next to him, and couldn't help laughing: "Professor, are you smiling at me?"

"Oh, Zheng, you should call me Thomas, now we have a colleague relationship, not the previous teacher-student relationship-"

Touching the door of his somewhat shiny brain, Thomas crossed his arms and said with a smile, the smile on his face disappeared a few points, and then he looked at the whiteboard next to him and said: "At present, the laboratory is conducting research on other two-dimensional materials, presumably Harvard University is similar, do you have any ideas for studying the hypothesis you said at the March meeting last time?"

"A two-dimensional material that is distorted into a three-dimensional structure?"

Zheng Jianguo subconsciously glanced at the whiteboard where a lot of things were written, and found that most of them were from the past, so he couldn't help but look up and point to the back of the whiteboard and said curiously: "This is the latest?"

"yes, that's the latest process—"

Thomas saw that Zheng Jianguo didn't seem to understand what he meant, so he went to the blackboard next to him and said, "If you want to write the two-dimensional material distorted into a three-dimensional structure on it, then you can let them do follow-up research on the material they are currently having——"

"No, this assumption was just an idea that I had when I saw sticky notes, but even if we proved it, it didn't make much sense, like we were fooling ourselves, because if it was really confirmed that it was distorted into a three-dimensional structure, I think it would lose the unique properties 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 to carry out this research in China, decades later, the world is burning money to carry out research in this area, but no material has entered industrial production, and graphene batteries alone can only be used as toys in the laboratory.

As for letting the laboratory in the United States burn money to increase his experience points, Zheng Jianguo will certainly not let go of this, leaning on the desk of unknown people and looking at the whiteboard and the blackboard, he also looked at Thomas: "We all know the quantum Hall effect on the atomic-scale graphite layer, in addition to the charge with integers and fractions, the electron also has another distinctive property - rotation. ”

"Oh, you said I wrote-"

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

"You're using the term two-dimensional material, not atomic-scale graphite layers?"

The chalk quickly stopped on the blackboard, Thomas pointed to the word "atomic-level graphite layer" written by himself, and saw Zheng Jianguo pointing to the whiteboard next to him, nodded and said: "In view of the fact that the laboratory has carried out research on other two-dimensional materials, I think it is more appropriate to use the term two-dimensional materials, of course, my previous idea refers to the atomic-level graphite layer——"

"Oh-"

Subconsciously glanced at the whiteboard, Thomas turned around with a look of approval on his face and erased the words he wrote, and then wrote the two-dimensional material on it, and then quickly took two steps back and looked at the assumptions above, but his mind began to run at high speed, but he didn't want to make this association, and his face showed surprise: "That is to say, this can obtain a kind of conductivity with a rotating drive and almost no energy loss!" Zheng, your focus is always different - the quantum spin Hall effect?"

"Thank you for the compliment, if you really find this kind of material under the quantum spin Hall effect, then it is conceivable that this will be a completely new state of matter, then when it comes to solid-state physics in our field, we can be regarded as touching the boundaries of solid-state physics, and then use this term to describe the content of our research, it is a bit of a word-"

Being able to think of the name of this science in the future, Zheng Jianguo also burned a lot of brain cells, and no one used the term solid-state physics in the era he remembered, and they all turned to condensed matter physics instead, of course, he didn't know at this time that the reason why the name had changed was because of the development of condensed matter theory.

Since quantum spin Hall states are a completely new state of matter, condensed matter theory usually classifies the state of matter according to the principle of symmetry breaking, so quantum Hall states, including the former, belong to the state of matter without spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is very different from ordinary state of matter.

The difference between quantum spin Hall states and quantum Hall states is that it does not require an external magnetic field, so it also maintains time-reversal symmetry, of course, these are not known to Thomas, including Zheng Jianguo: "What do you feel?"