Shen Qi's painstaking work was finally published in the most high-end professional physics journal "Physical Review Letters".

PRL briefly commented on the paper, "A Study on Defect Topology Based on Spherical Stable Homotopy Groups": "Shen Qi and Witten's topology research in condensed matter physics reminds us of Solis, Kosterlitz, and Haldane. ”

Solis, Kosterlitz and Haldan were awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.

The three scientists boldly and innovatively applied the concept of topology to condensed matter physics, and they used mathematical methods to solve physical problems, which seems to be similar to the research topics of Shen Qi and Witten.

It should be said that the research topics of Shen Qi and Witten are similar to the three Nobel laureates, after all, they are Nobel laureates.

System: "New Achievement!The host publishes a paper in a top physics journal, and the basic reward is 50,000 Xueba points, multiplied by the IF value of 7.872, and the final reward amount is 393,600 Xueba points." ”

Yes, there is a small reward.

With the physics skills to brush up on the points of the top students, Shen Qi could not enjoy the 2.0 times bonus of the main talent in mathematics, but the IF value of the PRL was higher, which made up for the loss.

The IF value of PRL is 7.872 divided by 2 = 3.936

Among all the mathematics journals in the world, only Annals of Mathematics has an IF value higher than 3.936.

The current IF value of an academic journal is actually from the previous year, updated annually, and the current IF value of the Annals of Mathematics is over 4, which is at an all-time high.

PRL's IF value of 7.872 is neither high nor low, and the IF value of this physics journal has exploded above 10 for several years.

"I went to work. Shen Qi said to Ou Ye.

"PRL, cool. Ou Ye sent Shen Qi to the door of the house, kissed it, and watched Shen Qi leave the faculty dormitory and go to work.

As soon as he walked out of the dormitory building, Shen Qi met Faltins.

"Hey, Qi, PRL, cool!" Faltins greeted Shen Qi.

"Greid, where are you going? Math Building is going this way, you should follow me. ”

"I'll go for a walk before I go to work, and all in all you're cool. ”

Shen Qi walked towards the math building, and met some acquaintances along the way.

"Strange, you're cool, crossover successful. ”

"Mary, you look good today, where are you going, go this way to the math building. ”

"Morning jogging, weight loss. ”

"Hey, Professor Shen, you're cool. ”

"Hey, Barbara, do you also care about the latest developments in the physics world?" Shen Qi wondered, Faltins and Mary are academics anyway, they know that PRL's influence is normal, could it be that Aunt Barbara, the administrative assistant, is also keen on academics?

"Uh-huh, I don't know physics, but I know words. ”

"Barbara, go this way to the math building, follow me by the way. Shen Qi kept repeating this sentence early in the morning.

"I'll come over later, see you later. ”

It was also a coincidence that these professors, researchers, and administrative assistants of the Department of Mathematics met Shen Qi, but none of them stopped with him.

Shen Qi came to his office in the Mathematics Building alone and flipped through the latest issue of PRL, where his paper was published.

"PRL, wow, cool. Shen Qi imitated the tone of those people just now, amusing himself.

He has a few brushes in physics, and Shen Qi knows in his heart that the paper "Research on Defect Topology Based on Spherical Stable Homotopy Group" has a certain gap with the research results of the three Nobel Prize bigwigs in 2016.

Faltins, Mary, and Barbara are all watching the excitement and don't understand the real doorway.

At this time, there were few people in the math building, and there were not even people who chattered.

Shen Qi got up, left the mathematics building, and walked towards the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

At the entrance to the Institute for Advanced Study is an extremely large lawn, the size of a standard American football field, and the lawn is very smooth, like a huge green carpet.

Shen Qi paced slowly on the lawn, and he remembered Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao back then.

When Mr. Yang was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Mr. Li often came to see him.

Oppenheimer, the director at the time and the "father of the atomic bomb," once said that his favorite sight was Yang and Lee walking side by side on the lawn of Princeton.

It was on this huge lawn that Yang and Lee teamed up to overturn one of physics' central messages: that cosmic conservation elementary particles and their mirror images behave identically.

The theory of non-conservation of cosmic symmetry is the representative work of Yang and Li, and it is also the pinnacle of modern physical history.

Yang and Li were contemporaries, and Shen Qi's academic partners in mathematics were some older than his father, such as Muller in the Mueller-Shen theorem.

No, there's another old fellow who is also a teacher and friend, Edward Witten.

"Qi, it seems that your work in the mathematics department has been relatively easy lately. Witten came out for a walk and met Shen Qi.

"Edward, the paper we co-wrote has been published in PRL. Shen Qi's partner in physics, Witten, is also older than his father.

"Did your office just get online?" asked Witten.

Shen Qi smiled, "Edward, what should we do next?"

"Then, you send a PRL a week until they give you the Nobel Prize in Physics. ”

"What are you kidding, Edward, it took me more than half a year to complete the first draft of my paper "A Study on Defect Topology Based on Spherical Stable Homotopy Groups". ”

"Now you can continue to study innovative theories in condensed matter physics, which is a popular direction. "Witten was joking, but now it's serious.

"Edward, can you devote a little more energy to condensed matter physics? After all, the current stage of experimental equipment and computer analysis has the conditions to verify most condensed matter physics theories. Shen Qi came up with an immature idea.

Superstring theory is extremely difficult to verify by existing experimental equipment, and people cannot be sure of the correctness and universality of the theoretical system you have constructed, so they cannot give you a medal.

Many of the theoretical research results of condensed matter physics have been applied to new materials, and the probability of winning the Nobel Prize is higher if you engage in basic theoretical research in this area.

Before the age of 60, Witten was very eager to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, and in recent years he has seen it through: "People can't live for a medal, my greatest wish is to live to be 100 years old, and I believe that at that time, my theory will be thoroughly understood." I just want to see this day with my own eyes and that's it. ”

"Yes, health is above all else. Shen Qi sincerely wished Witten a long life, a hundred years and thousands of generations.

Back at the Princeton Math Building, Shen Qi welcomed a visitor.

The white man was tall and burly, he leaned back on the sofa with a big knife, and looked around the layout and decoration of Shen Qi's office: "Shen, I heard that the coffee in the mathematics department is good. ”

Shen Qi picked up the landline microphone and dialed the internal line: "Barbara, bring a cup of coffee to Professor Hackman." ”

Ian Hackman is a professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton and holds the Barclays Prize, the European Prize in Physics, and the Yuri Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Princeton slapped a large place, looked down and didn't look up, Shen Qi often met Professor Hackman on campus, said hello, and did not have in-depth communication.