277: Chapter 277 The Shock of the Nobel Laureate

Picking any set of data for mathematical modeling and optimization could result in a high-quality paper. There was naturally no need to waste time on experiments.

Moreover, his Biology level had already reached LV4. Writing a paper focused on applied improvements was of average difficulty for him, or one could even say it was quite easy.

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While Zhao Yang was leisurely tapping on his keyboard in his Peking University apartment, writing his Biology paper...

At the same time, in the USA on the other side of the ocean.

Headquarters of the American Physical Society.

The editorial office of Physical Review Letters.

It was early morning in New York.

Chris, an editor, yawned and, as usual, walked into the office carrying a cup of freshly brewed black coffee. He sat down at his workstation, opened his computer's internal review inbox right on time, and began processing the manuscripts distributed by the system today, continuing from where he left off yesterday.

As a senior editor for PRL, Chris had to face hundreds of Physics preprints sent from all over the world every day. Eighty percent of them were academic trash or repetitive experimental data with no innovation.

Therefore, he processed emails extremely quickly; most manuscripts would be rejected immediately after a glance at the abstract.

Soon, Chris's mouse clicked on the thirtieth email in today's list.

This was a submission from Peking University in the Dragon Country.

Author's signature: Yang Zhao (Zhao Yang).

Paper title: "Exploration of a Microscopic Phase Transition Model for Room-Temperature Superconductivity Based on Topological Insulator Boundary States".

Seeing the words "room-temperature superconductivity," Chris instinctively frowned. This was a notorious "money pit" in the world of Physics, where countless fraudsters and megalomaniacs had stumbled.

But the name Zhao Yang felt somewhat familiar to Chris. The person who had solved Goldbachs Conjecture a while ago also seemed to be named Zhao Yang.

Could it be the same person?

A hint of surprise flashed in Chris's eyes. After hesitating for a moment, he clicked on the abstract of the main text.

After reading for a while, the speed at which Chris scrolled the mouse wheel slowed down.

Ten minutes later.

His gaze was quickly and deeply captivated by the underlying mathematical derivation model of high-dimensional Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory in the first part of the paper.

Chris put down his coffee cup, leaned forward, and stared intently at the complex formulas on the screen.

Another twenty minutes passed.

When he reached the latter half of the paper and saw that the author had introduced an additional Chern-Simons topological term and used the method of pole cancellation in the complex plane to perfectly solve a significant infrared divergence problem that had plagued the Condensed Matter Physics community for years...

Chris suddenly stood up from his office chair.

His breathing became very rapid, and his eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.

“My God! He actually completely closed the loop on topological phase transitions at the microscopic level!”

Chris shouted excitedly, his voice sounding abrupt in the quiet editorial office.

Several senior editor colleagues nearby, who were also reviewing manuscripts, looked up with confusion in their eyes at the excited Chris.

“Quick, come and look at this submission from the Dragon Country!”

Several senior editors stood up, came to Chris's computer desk, and began reading together.

At first, they were somewhat dismissive, but as they read further, these editors with deep backgrounds in Physics soon fell into a state of excitement, just like Chris.

Because they knew very well just how heavy the weight of this paper was!

If this microscopic phase transition model for high-temperature superconductivity, built on pure mathematical derivation, were eventually confirmed by experiment, then it would not only rewrite Condensed Matter Physics textbooks but even have a chance at a Nobel Prize!

“Editor-in-Chief! This manuscript must enter the peer review process as soon as possible!”

Chris rushed excitedly into the Editor-in-Chief's office.

The editorial board's senior management quickly held a meeting.

Several editors began discussing which people this heavyweight paper should be sent to for blind review.

After all, this paper used a large number of cutting-edge Topology and Algebraic Geometry formulas. Ordinary physicists wouldn't even be able to understand the basic mathematical derivation process, let alone evaluate it.

After repeated screening and confirmation.

The editorial office finally listed a luxurious roster of reviewers.

Ranked first among them was Professor Anthony Leggett, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics and an absolute authority in Superfluid and superconductivity theory!

The others were also top-tier experts from Ivy League universities with extremely high achievements in the fields of Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Field Theory.

The review invitation emails, carrying urgent red labels, were sent to the private inboxes of these giants in Physics.

Professor Anthony Leggett of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign saw the illustrious name "Yang Zhao" in the author column after a strong recommendation from the editorial office.

Is it that young man from the Dragon Country who just proved Goldbachs Conjecture on the spot in India? He's crossed over into high-temperature superconductivity theory?

With intense curiosity, Professor Anthony quickly clicked to agree to the review.

He canceled a whole day of academic conferences, sat in his office, and opened the PDF attachment of the paper.

When he first started reading the abstract, Professor Anthony's expression was relatively relaxed.

But as the mouse kept scrolling down and entered the core phase transition model derivation stage, the Nobel laureate's expression became very serious. He even took out paper and a pen and began following along with the calculations on a notepad.

He studied it for a full three days.

Only then did Professor Anthony let out a long breath of turbid air. According to his calculation results, Zhao Yang's paper was, at least theoretically and in its mathematical model, without any issues!

Very ingenious!

He opened his computer and typed a highly appreciative review in the PRL editorial office's internal review system.

“This paper constructs a perfect fortress in terms of mathematical logic. The author's creative use of topological terms to eliminate divergence errors is a stroke of genius.”

“I must state that whether this purely theoretical model can find a corresponding physical entity in existing copper-based superconducting materials requires me to lead a team to slightly verify it with experimental data over a longer period in an environment with ultra-low temperatures and strong magnetic fields.”

Professor Anthony gave his final conclusion: “However, based on the current derivation of this model in microscopic quantum mechanics and Group Theory symmetry, there are no logical issues. I strongly recommend that PRL publish it.”

Meanwhile.

Several other top Physics reviewers distributed around the world also basically gave opinions similar to Professor Anthony's after performing their own calculations.

All passed with a green light; not a single reviewer submitted a rejection or requested major revisions.

The Physics community on the other side of the ocean was surging with undercurrents because of this paper that had appeared out of nowhere.

And as the person responsible, Zhao Yang had no idea how much of a stir his paper had caused.

At this moment, he was still in the faculty apartment at Peking University, leisurely finishing that Biology reagent improvement paper intended to fulfill his obligation.

Of course, it was different from his previous state of seclusion.

Because this Biology paper wasn't very difficult, Zhao Yang was now in a state of half-rest and half-work.