Confidence Is a Good Thing

Lin Yi stared helplessly at the 253 kelvin displayed on the screen.

Then he looked at the magnetic measurement records beside it.

The magnetic flux expulsion signal in the same temperature range matched the resistance curve before his eyes, which had dropped to the measurement limit.

Only then did he turn around and look at Li Dong excitedly.

"Professor, it really works. I wasn't wrong."

"Adjusting the samarium substitution ratio and interstitial hydrogen content according to the calculations, then increasing the phase stiffness—it really can raise the superconducting temperature."

Li Dong nodded.

"It seems your earlier idea was indeed correct."

When Lin Yi had first proposed this approach, Li Dong had only thought it was worth a try.

After all, no one had ever done it before.

Lin Yi had wanted to use the chemical internal pressure brought by samarium substitution, together with interstitial hydrogen's adjustment of carrier concentration, to make the phases in the material more resistant to thermal fluctuations.

But how much substitution was needed? And how much hydrogen had to be added? The previous approximate methods could not calculate those accurately.

Now that Li Dong had developed this non-perturbative method, Lin Yi could naturally calculate the appropriate ratio between the two and then fabricate samples according to the results.

After several days of trial and error, Lin Yi's earlier idea had finally been verified.

253 kelvin was now only about 20 degrees away from 0 degrees Celsius.

And even before the computational method had been worked out, Lin Yi had already correctly identified the direction in which the material needed to be adjusted.

Li Dong gave Lin Yi a long look.

This student's intuition for condensed matter physics and materials research was indeed extraordinary.

"Yes. Now we only need to continue optimizing this ratio, and we'll be