There were five papers in total. After searching, Xue Zhongkun found only Du Ke's four published papers and the one currently under review. All of them concerned electron flow theory, and all had been published this year.
"Interesting. Truly interesting. How had this electron flow theory been conceived? Protons and electrons were separated into different streams, forming an entirely new aggregated state. Moreover, the mechanical equilibrium and separation methods had both been thoroughly demonstrated, painting an excellent blueprint for the future."
Xue Zhongkun's main research areas were scanning tunneling microscopy, spintronics, topological insulating quantum states, low-dimensional superconductivity, and the like. These fields happened to be related to electron flow theory, so after reading all the papers, he quickly developed a strong interest in Du Ke's proposed theory. He reread the papers twice and still did not find it satisfying enough, so he approved the paper while continuing to search for Du Ke.
He hoped to find Du Ke's other papers, but there truly were none.
Even when he found several authors with the same name, their papers had nothing to do with electron flow theory, and their correspondence addresses did not match. Unable to find any more papers, he contacted the editorial office of Physical Review B and asked them to send him Du Ke's information. The editorial office needed some time to locate it, so he began searching for the second author, Tao Xun, and found a little information.
"An Associate Professor at Xiake University, researching Materials Science and lithium batteries. That does not seem related to electron flow theory either... Could this Du Ke also be from Xiake University?"
Before long, Physical Review B sent over the author information.
To distinguish between authors with identical names, many journals required authors to submit their basic information and biographies along