Fang Hong left the headquarters of Qunxing Capital after making the strategic decision, and handed over the realization of the strategy to Qiu Guangcheng and their core management in the front line to execute.

In the next period of time, the most anticipated thing is to see if Wall Street is in the game, and Fang Hong is also very patient and waiting.

However, two days later, a news from the scientific and academic circles caught Fang Hong's attention, because this news was related to quantitative capital, and the media reported that a research team under quantitative capital announced that their research in the field of quantum computers had successfully achieved a time crystal.

Some media even described it as a "third type of perpetual motion machine", and as soon as Fang Hong saw these keywords, the word "civil science" subconsciously popped up in his mind.

However, this is indeed the latest breakthrough in the research results announced by a team of physicists led by Chen Yu under Quantitative Capital, although Quantitative Capital started as an investment management company, but few of his core team are financial students from the so-called academic school.

His team is almost a group of top mathematicians and physicists, and in order to study intelligent quantitative trading models, Chen Yu's team was "forced" to study artificial intelligence, and after studying artificial intelligence, it was found that computing power was not good.

Then it was found that the computing power of classical computers was certainly not enough to support more powerful artificial intelligence, but quantum computers could, so Chen Yu and his team were "forced" to study quantum computers.

From these, it can also be seen where the biggest advantage of Chen Yu's team is.

If Chen Yu's team is only composed of a group of academic-born financial classes, it is impossible for them to study AI, quantum computers, and chips.

"This kid is indeed a genius...... Fang Hong, who was in the study at home at this moment, looked at the news content and boasted to Chen Yu, and after a while, he connected to Chen Yu via video.

As soon as the video connection was connected, Fang Hong asked directly, "What is that 'time crystal' you have?" It can also be related to quantum computers, and a bunch of media have even described it as the so-called third type of perpetual motion machine, and the word perpetual motion machine has come out, what is the situation? ”

This matter really touched some of Fang Hong's knowledge blind spots, although he also knows a lot about computers and the Internet, he also understands computer programming, and his scientific literacy is more than most people, but after all, he was not a professional scientist engaged in scientific research in his previous life.

After a while, Chen Yu in the video said with a smile: "The concept of 'time crystal' is not our first creation, it was first proposed by the theoretical physicist of the magnesium country, Wilcek. ”

Hearing this, Fang Hong immediately said: "It turned out to be him, this scientist I know that he is one of the discoverers of 'progressive freedom' in quantum chromodynamics QCD." ”

Chen Yu nodded and replied: "That's right, Wilczek also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for QCD. ”

Fang Hong immediately asked, "So, what exactly is this time crystal?" ”

Chen Yu methodically explains: "Generally speaking, it is an open system, which has the characteristics of broken time-translation symmetry, and cannot achieve thermal equilibrium with the surrounding environment. In other words, in terms of time, it is cyclical, able to repeat itself regularly, and secondly, this state does not consume any energy, and Vilczek first proposed this concept, and this time we succeeded in making time crystals. ”

"The reason why it is called a time crystal, when the atoms and molecules of matter, which make up it, are neatly arranged in space according to a certain periodicity, they will show a regular geometric shape at the macroscopic level, so they are similar to crystals, and time crystals are this thing that also has similar characteristics at the time level."

"If you look at a time crystal, you will find that this thing will show different results at different times, and it will have a fixed periodicity with time, and if you make two observations in an integer period, you will get exactly the same results twice. For time crystals, the operation of time translation no longer has continuous symmetry and becomes a lattice-like discrete symmetry."

Hearing Chen Yu's description, Fang Hong immediately said: "That is, the translational symmetry of space corresponds to the conservation of momentum in physics, and this translational symmetry of time corresponds to the conservation of energy?" Right? ”

Hearing this, Chen Yu couldn't help but nod his head again and again, it seems that although the big boss is not professional, he also has scientific skills, so it won't be too difficult to communicate, he immediately said: "Yes, the time lattice does not consume any energy in the process of changing, this is because the movement itself is in a stable ground state with minimum energy, in other words, it is more stable than letting it stop, and it is more stable to keep moving." ”

Fang Hong couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why does this peculiar nature exist?" ”

Chen Yu replied: "The jury is still inconclusive, but it may be related to the zero point energy and the Casimir effect." However, the time crystal is not a so-called perpetual motion machine, the media is purely blind, and the movement of the time crystal is not accompanied by energy transfer, it is completely a spontaneous movement. ”

Fang Hong couldn't help but think about it: "The phenomenon of spontaneous motion is not uncommon in condensed matter physics, for example, under certain conditions, many superconductors will spontaneously produce closed circulation. ”

Chen Yu nodded and said: "That's right, for example, if you take a magnet close to the ring superconducting material, it can make the current in the ring, even if the magnet is taken away at this time, the ring current will always exist, because the superconducting ring at this time is in the lowest energy steady state, if the current stops, there will be additional energy injection intervention." ”

The big boss really has scientific skills, which indirectly shows that it is difficult to fool him.

Fang Hong asked again: "Is it possible that this superconducting circulation can also undergo periodic changes, can it also be regarded as a time crystal?" ”

Chen Yu immediately shook his head and explained: "No, the time crystal we are referring to is a state that repeats itself regularly, the focus is on the 'own state', in other words, superconducting circulation is just a phenomenon, the properties of the object itself have not changed, and the time crystal has changed its basic properties, such as density, conductivity, etc." ”

Fang Hong couldn't help but suddenly think: "I see." ”

Chen Yu continued: "This unique stability of the time crystal is very suitable for quantum computers, you should also know that the interaction between microscopic particles and macroscopic objects is easy to decohere, so that it loses its quantum characteristics, so the internal of the quantum computer is actually easy to make mistakes, and the stability of the time crystal can be used to avoid the occurrence of decoherence, so as to improve the lifetime of the quantum state and reduce the error rate." ”

At the end, Fang Hong couldn't help but laugh and said: "These media are really good at rendering, I was almost fooled, I thought you were about to make a quantum computer, but this is also a very rare breakthrough, which is enough to prove that the research of the team in the field of quantum computing has been ahead of the world." ”

When he saw the news report before, Fang Hong was also a little startled.

No, I immediately asked Chen Yu directly online about the situation.

If quantum computers are to make a revolutionary breakthrough, if this technology is lit up, it will be a big deal, and it will lead to a series of technological innovations.

However, Fang Hong was not disappointed, quantum computers are really so easy to break through is not a cutting-edge technology, after all, this is only half of 2014, and Moore's Law has not yet come to an end.

If Chen Yu can get a quantum computer out at this point in time, it will be the rhythm of black technology.

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(End of chapter)