Chapter 196 I’m here to teach you a lesson!
This is a very simply decorated conference room in the hotel. A long conference table, the biggest highlight is a wide floor-to-ceiling window.
If you raise your head slightly and look out the window, you can see the Philadelphia skyline.
Five scholars were already sitting at the table. The only conference table in the room was filled with various types of coffee, tea and handwritten notebooks.
When Qiao Yu walked into the conference room, what he saw was that everyone in the conference room was talking to the people around them, and the room was full of buzzing sounds.
"Ha, today's protagonist is finally here. Joe, you must not know that in order to have a discussion with you, some people had to get up early today."
A professor sitting at the front stood up and said enthusiastically. The conference room also fell silent instantly.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Qiao Yu.
Qiao Yu was a little confused and turned to look at Senior Brother Chen.
He originally thought that he was considered a figure in the mathematics community. If he was invited to participate in such a small-scale meeting, not only would he know everyone, but at least he would know most of them.
Who would have thought that he didn't know anyone in the conference room. And it seemed that no one had any accompanying scientific researchers, and he was the only one with Zheng Xiwen.
"Junior brother, let me introduce you first..."
"No need Chen, we can introduce ourselves, this will save some time. I am Nelson Wilson, professor of physics at Princeton. Well, my main research direction is Gaussian unitary sets and quantum state evolution."
"Hello, Professor Wilson." Qiao Yu said hello immediately, but he was still thinking about why a physics professor was sitting in the first place when everyone was obviously here for a mathematics conference.
"Just call me Nelson."
Nelson Wilson answered kindly, then pointed to the old professor beside him and said: "This is my old friend, Professor Harris Robinson of Cambridge University. He mainly studies dynamic systems and chaos theory..."< br>
"Hello, Professor Robinson."
"Hello, Joe, I've always wanted to meet you, and today I finally got the chance."
"Isabelle Droit, Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, mainly studies ζ function and Dirichlet series distribution."
"Hello."
"Kenta Inoue, professor at Kyoto University, focuses on the extension of number theory to modal geometry theory. Mr. Qiao Yu, I am very concerned about your generalized modal theory."
"Hello, thank you."
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After a round of greetings, Qiao Yu found that the number of people attending today's small meeting was indeed very large, from Princeton, Harvard, Cambridge University, Paris Normal School, Oxford University, Kyoto University...
They are all top professors from world-renowned universities. Although these people only mentioned their research directions when they introduced themselves, Senior Brother Chen beside them briefly talked about their achievements in a low voice.
Nielsen has won the Nobel Prize and the Dirac Medal, and Harris has won the Poingaray Prize and was nominated for the 2014 Fields Medal, and was even a finalist.
Others such as Clay Award, Sarah Hoffman Award, Asian Mathematical Congress Award, Gordon Bell Award, ACM Annual Technical Achievement Award...
In short, there are a lot of awards that Qiao Yu has never heard of.
It only took about five minutes to get to know each other.
Soon Nelson asked Qiao Yu to sit next to him, and then started the meeting.
"This is an informal meeting. You can understand it as a brainstorming salon. We have recently been paying attention to the generalized modal axiom system. Since I am the convener of this salon, I first ask a question.
I have always felt that the density function of the generalized modal axiom system is similar to the distribution of quantum states. Especially the modal paths you describe in your paper, I also found some similar symmetry phenomena in the quantum state matrix I recently studied.
So, Joe, have you considered that the construction of modal space can be generalized to theoretical simulations of quantum computing? ”
Qiao Yu blinked, this feeling was very familiar. After he solved the Riemann Hypothesis, when professors from Beijing came to visit him in the past half month, they also asked questions directly after greetings.
Good guy, he lived like this every day when he was in China. Will he still have to live like this after coming here?
But this idea is really new. Qiao Yu thought for a moment and then said: "Well, do you mean to map the modal path into the quantum state matrix?
To be honest, I haven't really researched this area. But I think from a geometric point of view, this should be a relatively reasonable extension. ”
Next to me, Isabella added: "Actually, we have had some discussions in the past few days. This involves a key issue, is the isomorphic mapping of the modal space strictly unique?
To realize this generalization on high-dimensional modal paths, we feel it is necessary to further clarify the analytical properties of its density function, otherwise there may be information loss. ”
Qiao Yu blinked and said in confusion: "Well, when I proved the Riemann Hypothesis, didn't I already prove the uniqueness of the isomorphic mapping of the modal space and the analytic properties of the density function? Shouldn't this step be a theoretical step? Solved and uncontroversial premise? ”
"No, no, no, Joe, you got it wrong. We are not denying that the isomorphic mapping between modal space and the complex plane has been rigorously proven.
However, when this system is extended to random matrix theory and high-dimensional modal paths, the spectral distribution in the random matrix involves many new variables and dimensions.
Well, for example, can the spectral distribution of Gaussian unitary sets be completely characterized by the density function of the modal space? And as the dimensionality increases again, does the isomorphic mapping of the modal space still maintain uniqueness?
You know, when we try to combine modal space and random matrix theory, we must put forward more detailed requirements on the basic assumptions of isomorphic mapping, and think about whether there is some unknown special situation that may destroy this mapping. ”
Nelson explained with a serious face, and then said seriously: "So after discussing with everyone last time, I put forward a new conjecture.
Can the spectral distribution of modal paths and random matrices be unified through some higher dimensional space? If we can, this means we will create a high-dimensional unified framework applicable to all areas related to complex analysis. ”
Qiao Yu's eyes lit up when he heard this question.
He probably understood why Director Tian and Mr. Yuan actually wanted him to attend such a world-class conference.
These mathematicians and physicists always have some very novel ideas. The divergence of thinking of these scientific geeks in a complex environment is absolutely unmatched by a scientific research environment.
"Joe, there's no doubt I'd love for you to join us! You should know the potential value of this question!"
Qiao Yu blinked and didn't respond.
With his understanding of the generalized modal axiom system, he certainly knows the potential value and even application value.
In just that short moment, he had already thought of many new things to play with.
For example, combining modal space with the evolution of quantum state matrices and extending the concept of Riemann's hypothesis to random matrix theory can help his Xiaoyu computing platform design more efficient algorithms.
However, he had not done much research on random matrices and quantum states before, so he did not think of this topic.
Qiao Yu looked around at the mathematicians and physicists with different expressions around him.
Especially Nielsen, whose eyes are particularly eager, is indeed a little excited about this research. After all, it can realize his current ideal, but there is no look of interest on his face...
"If it was just a brief discussion today, of course I would have no problem. But to be honest, I don't have much time for this topic. Professor Wilson, to tell you the truth, I am not interested in the study of random matrices at all.
I still have a lot of work to do next. For example, as everyone knows, I mentioned three conjectures about prime numbers in my paper. Next, my focus will be on proving those three conjectures! ”
Qiao Yu said seriously.
I have to say that Qiao Yu's statement was very scholarly.
What is the use of these you are studying? Is the stuff I’m studying high-end? Random matrix? No dog can learn...
Especially those describing chaotic physics. He, Qiao Yu, is a real theoretical mathematician!
Sure enough, Nelson Wilson frowned and began to think about the words: "Qiao, how should I put it, I know it is very presumptuous to persuade a mathematician to put his energy into an area that he is not interested in.
But you may not know the potential applications of this research. How about we introduce you to some of our recent results first, and then you can make a decision? ”
"Okay, this salon is meant for everyone to sit together and discuss issues, you say."
The next two hours gave Qiao Yu a taste of what salon-style discussions abroad were like.
Most of the time he just listened silently, occasionally chiming in, but soon he understood why these guys were so enthusiastic about this issue.
To put it bluntly, I also want to pull in projects.
It's just that unlike China, the project orientation here is generally capital-driven.
Several mathematicians and physicists in related fields want to work on a big project together - to promote quantum computing simulation technology.
As we all know, quantum computers have many innate advantages, and Google has been doing research in this area. The media even exaggerated the threat theory of quantum supremacy.
But in fact, there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved in quantum computing. In particular, there is still a long way to go to solve the problem of universality. And judging from the current research progress, quantum computers are only useful at a few levels compared to classical electronic computers.
For example, complex combinatorial optimization problems, cryptography and information security, big data search and sorting, etc. And it relies heavily on quantum algorithms.
At least at this stage, quantum algorithms are only better than classical algorithms under limited conditions and have no universal applicability.
Therefore, these mathematicians and physicists have been studying how to use classical electronic computers to simulate quantum computing, and let supercomputers do the work of quantum computing simulation.
But there is a problem. The state space of a quantum system grows exponentially with the number of particles, while the resource growth of a classical electronic computer is linear.
The emergence of the modal axiom system, especially Qiao Yu's method of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, allowed them to discover that many problems can be simplified under the generalized modal axiom system proposed by Qiao Yu.
Because Qiao Yu’s system happens to be the generalized modal axiom system that can geometricize and structure complex high-dimensional spaces. In particular, the understanding of the evolution of high-dimensional states in random matrices can be simplified through modal paths and modal density functions.
But this requires completing a core theoretical proof: that is, whether the mapping of modal space and random matrices can maintain the same rigor in new boundary conditions or high-dimensional spaces.
If this problem can be proved, the system of generalized modal axioms can be introduced into this work. As long as the theoretical proof is completed, the project can be launched directly.
It’s still a big project.
Huge investment has been made in hardware research for quantum computers. If a new supercomputing platform can be built and directly used to simulate quantum computing, it will mean tens of billions of investments from many technology companies.
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Even though the research funds currently attracted by these professors are not much, they are still two to three million dollars, still in U.S. dollars.
Of course, the investors behind them are also those who don’t let the hawk see the rabbit. If they want to get further investment, they must quickly produce verifiable results.
After chatting for more than two hours, Qiao Yu already understood the approximate progress so far. The main research process is still at the theoretical stage.
In terms of practical application, it is not even as good as IBM's open source Qiskit project. But then again, Qiskit mainly does visual quantum circuit design and runs quantum circuit simulations on classical computers.
Specific quantum hardware execution also requires running quantum computing tasks on quantum processors through the platform provided by IBM.
The idea of these scientists is to allow the classical supercomputing platform to completely simulate quantum computing behavior, which is very different.
So if it succeeds, it means there is no need to rely on quantum hardware, and it can completely change the landscape of the entire quantum computing industry.
The advantage of Qiao Yu's generalized modal axiom system is that it can simulate complex quantum behaviors more efficiently than traditional methods, and optimizes storage and calculation through dynamic mapping and compression of the modal space.
In particular, the distributed computing architecture of modal space is used to achieve more efficient parallel computing.
After almost understanding it, Qiao Yu decided to teach today's scientists a lesson after thinking for a long time.
"Professors, I almost understand your thoughts and progress. I am very optimistic about the prospects of this topic. If you need it, maybe I can mention it in tomorrow's report.
But I will not participate in your research! As I just said, I don’t have that much energy to devote to this research direction that requires long-term technical research.
But I can help you with some theoretical questions. Well... I have a teacher named Xue Song, who is doing general modal generalization of group theory.
According to my understanding of quantum computing, group theory is its core tool. Quantum states and specific quantum operations can be described by the representation and structure of groups.
Moreover, when simulating quantum states, modal compression can also be achieved using relevant group theory tools. For example, exploiting the symmetry of dynamic group representations to reduce storage requirements.
So I can introduce him to you. I believe that with the help of Professor Xue, I can help you complete the theoretical derivation process as soon as possible. As for me, I will not join this project. ”
Yes, Qiao Yu had no intention of getting involved in the research of these professors. In this way, after returning to China and completing the theoretical derivation, he can confidently apply for research funding for this project.
Are you kidding me?
If he can really handle the quantum simulation of supercomputing platforms, his Xiaoyu technology service platform will usher in a leapfrog development.
Especially if the difficulty of quantum factorization can be solved and the Shor algorithm can be efficiently run on its own platform, the BBC's previous report will not only become a reality, but you will also have to call him dad...
After all, the mainstream encryption protocols, encryption keys and electronic signature technologies these days still use RSA or ECC.
If the simulated quantum computing platform can be factored extremely efficiently, it means that all these keys can be easily cracked.
This also means that the security standards of the entire industry must be re-formulated. Whoever can provide countermeasures technology will be the setter of future financial security standards.
At that time, financial service providers around the world will have to line up to pay protection fees. The only problem is that this project is not something he can handle alone.
It's not even something he can just assemble a team to play. So I have to apply for a national project after I go back.
After Zheng Xiwen gave him a lesson, Qiao Yu also realized that if this kind of project could really be successfully developed, it would definitely not work if there was no one behind it.
Of course, if quantum computing can be perfectly simulated, not only the entire financial security system will be affected, but it will also have positive significance.
After all, being able to run the Shor algorithm efficiently means that the Grover algorithm can also be run efficiently. This means that as long as you are connected to the financial system, you can quickly identify countless capital flow paths.
In a sense, this means that it is possible to keep an eye on dozens or millions of accounts at the same time, sort out the flow of every abnormal fund, and support real-time updates.
In fact, there was no need for Zheng Xiwen to teach him. Qiao Yu now thought with his toes that this kind of technology that could provoke a big country to fight a war could not be mastered by one person.
At least it couldn't be in his hands now, otherwise it would be seeking death, and Jesus couldn't save it even if he came.
Regarding Qiao Yu's choice, the mathematicians who specially invited him to have a chat were still very sorry.
There was no way, they couldn't force Qiao Yu to do the projects they were optimistic about. To be honest, regardless of the salon just now, everyone was talking enthusiastically about it, but in fact, no one has a clue whether this project will be successful.
To put it bluntly, if the previous methods such as sparse matrices, tensor networks, Monte Carlo, low-rank approximation, variational quantum simulation, etc. were not very effective, they would not have considered dragging Qiao Yu into this position. In a big team.
It was originally a two-way multiple choice question.
After arriving in the elevator with Qiao Yu, Chen Zhuoyang, who had not interrupted during the meeting, couldn't help but say: "Junior brother, I think what they said is very interesting."
Qiao Yu glanced at Zheng Xiwen, who had been following him silently, and then started teaching Chen Zhuoyang.
It wasn't loud, but the two people around him could definitely hear it.
"Listen to them! Don't you have any idea how difficult this project is? Is this something they can handle with their limited funds?"
Chen Zhuoyang stopped talking immediately.
What he just said was based on his unlimited confidence in Qiao Yu. Since Qiao Yu said it was difficult, then the difficulty was probably infinite.
But after getting off the elevator, Qiao Yu took the initiative and said: "But then again, this project is really exciting. After all, if supercomputers can really simulate quantum computing, the security of the financial system will be a generation ahead of others.
Moreover, if this theory is developed, technology in simulation calculations will also advance by leaps and bounds, which will be of great help to the research of new materials, aerospace technology, such as moon landings!
Now people have started this research. If they succeed, we will fall behind. This is not good news. ”
Chen Zhuoyang frowned and said: "No, junior brother, didn't you just say that their subject is difficult and basically impossible to succeed?"
Qiao Yu glared at Chen Zhuoyang and said, "When did I say it's basically impossible? I mean it's very difficult for them to have the funds now. But with Lao Xue joining us, and with the help of our generalized modal axiom system, maybe Is it done?
And it’s challenging only if it’s difficult! For example, is the Riemann Hypothesis difficult? Did I do it differently? No, remember to remind me that I will apply for this project after I go back, and I must try to get it done before they do. ”
"Ah?" Chen Zhuoyang was stunned and asked subconsciously: "Then if you plan to do it, why don't you cooperate with them?"
Qiao Yu blinked. He couldn't tell whether Chen Zhuoyang was trying to compliment him on purpose or if he really didn't react.
So he said earnestly: "If I have the confidence to complete such an important project with my own team, why should I cooperate with others?
If you think so, I introduced Lao Xue to them. If they can really chat, it means that our generalized modal axiom system is really useful.
In this way, I can easily inquire about their research progress from Lao Xue. And since he is more familiar with this system than them, wouldn’t the research progress definitely be faster than theirs? ”
Chen Zhuoyang was stunned and murmured subconsciously: "Junior brother, you don't seem very kind, do you?"
Qiao Yu retorted seriously: "What does it mean to be unkind? What are you thinking, Senior Brother Chen. They just use a PPT to fool people, what's so unkind about this?
You should understand that I am teaching them a lesson. Using a PPT to deceive academic newcomers is not only unethical, but also risky. ”
Chen Zhuoyang, who realized that his junior brother was playing tricks again, was speechless. After a while, he said: "Well... they don't seem to have brought out the PPT."
"Look, I'm just saying that they don't care. They deceive the new academics and they don't even want to take the time to make a PPT. Don't worry about it. Just remind me when you go back.
Where else are we going this morning? By the way, has Director Tian finished his work? Why do you feel that Director Tian is busier than me now? This is unscientific! ”
(End of chapter)