It has been a week since Xiao Yi's paper was published on arxiv, and the discussion about Absolute Electronic Computation has become more and more intense throughout Materials science community and Condensed matter physics community - strictly speaking, it is not just Condensed Matter Physics, because in addition to this direction, scholars from other directions in the field of physics have also joined the discussion.
For example, those scholars in Particle physics.
They also discovered for the first time that Path integral and Markov chain Monte Carlo technique can be connected to predict the trajectory and movement patterns of electrons.
This forced them to think, what if they used the same method to study the behavior of other particles?
After all, there are many other microscopic particles besides electrons.
When they use a particle collider, particles collide at sub-light speeds and can almost knock out an entire microscopic world.
If this method can be used to help them simulate particle collision experiments, it will obviously greatly assist their research.
But the question is, 'I'll solve the collider', who's going to solve the math problem?
To this end, Theoretical physics community invited their nuclear weapon-Edward Witten.
Edward Witten, the top expert on String Theory and Quantum Field Theory, the proposer of M-theory, as for M-theory, is considered to be the ultimate theory of the universe, Theory of Everything The candidate can achieve the unification of Quantum Mechanics and the theory of relativity, but because it is too difficult to verify this M-theory, it has been limited to the scope of theory until now.
However, although Edward Witten is a Theoretical Physicist, his achievements in mathematics can make many mathematicians feel ashamed, because as a physicist, he has received the highest honor of mathematics Fields Medal.
There is a saying that describes him as the best in physics among mathematicians, and the best in mathematics among physicists.
Therefore, in order to extend this method of Xiao Yi to Theoretical Physics, we need to rely on Edward Witten.
However, in the face of petitions from a group of physics colleagues, Edward Witten had no choice but to express on his social platform: [Sorry, I can only disappoint you in response to your requests. Obviously this is not an easy thing to do. It has many problems. For example, how do we match Path integral with other particles one-to-one?
Similarly, how should we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to process these contents?
Different particles have different situations, and we all need to classify them differently.
In fact, I have often heard Pierre Deligne talk about the genius Xiao Yi. I also read his paper a few days ago. To my surprise, the mathematical methods in this paper gave me a natural feeling, as if these methods were designed and were just waiting to be used by Xiao Yi. There is an incredible sense of fit.
But obviously this is impossible. It can only be said that when Xiao Yi uses these methods, he can always use ingenious methods to perfectly integrate these seemingly incompatible things. Just like at the beginning, there seemed to be irreconcilable contradictions between Quark confinement theory and the strong interaction force. In the end, with the help of Quantum Chromodynamics, they were finally unified by virtue of the chromatic charge symmetry, forming our modern understanding of the strong interaction.
I also have trouble doing this.
Well, so I would like to make a suggestion. You might as well try and let Xiao Yi study our Theoretical Physics. Maybe he can solve your request?]
Professor Witten's reply can only make the scholars in the physics community feel helpless. Even the mathematical nuclear weapons in their physics community said they cannot do it. Do they really want to ask Xiao Yi for help?
Well, maybe try it?
After all, they Theoretical Physics are so interesting, maybe they can also attract the interest of Xiao Yi?
Regarding the international Scientific Community's reaction, as the author of the paper, Xiao Yi naturally received a lot of attention.
Although this matter did not directly become a hot search topic, he still became very popular in related fields in China.
For example, on a platform like Zhihu, which is a mixed bag of good and bad, and occasionally involves some real knowledge, the discussion about Absolute Electronic Computation is also on the hot search list.
Researchers from key domestic laboratories said that their laboratory has prepared to use Absolute Electronic Computation as a core experimental tool and is expected to use it on a large scale.
But there are inevitably some people who have criticized it, and the reasons for their criticism are quite reasonable.
[Absolute Electronic Computation is certainly a very good method, but you have not considered what kind of results it will bring once using this Computational Materials Science method becomes a habit and the calculated results are regarded as a guideline?
This can cause us to miss a lot of things we haven't discovered before!
There is no Computational Materials Science method that can completely describe the microscopic world of materials, not to mention that even if it can be completely described, it is not what our current computer performance can achieve.
If there are some new mechanisms that we have not discovered, the large-scale use of computational methods will make it difficult for us to discover these unknown mechanisms in the future, such as Magic angle graphene superconductivity. Do you think that using these Computational Materials Science methods can help us predict it before we discover it?
Experimentation is the king of Materials Science. Computation should not occupy such a high position, and we must not lower the status of experiment just like this.
Otherwise, it will only be the entire Materials science community that will regret it in the end.
Cyber Materials Science is not advisable!]
Such critical comments have aroused many people's thoughts and caused quite a few people to participate in the discussion.
The result of Computational Materials Science is indeed like the last sentence, it can be called a kind of Cyber Materials Science. The conclusions are all fictitious. Only when it is completed in reality can it be considered true.
In general, whether it is domestic or foreign, the evaluation of Absolute Electronic Computation is mostly good, and the rest is to use it dialectically, so that it can truly become a tool rather than a guiding principle.
However, Xiao Yi did not express too many opinions on these matters.
How Scientific Community uses his method cannot be changed by him alone. Maybe others will say, "You are just a math person, what do you know Absolute Electronic Computation."
All I can say is that I believe in the wisdom of Scientific Community.
As for him at this time, he finally had a celebration banquet for the Luo Mingya research team.