After leaving the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, Academician Liu felt as though he were sleepwalking, his mind in complete disarray.
Following the physical demonstration, Lu Zhou went on to explain to the experts from the Hua Academy of Sciences, from a theoretical perspective, the application of Topological Quantum Theory in Mott insulators, as well as how he had used basic Carbon-Based Integrated Circuit components and Josephson Junctions to create Majorana Fermions.
Objectively speaking, it was genuinely difficult for someone engaged in applied research like him to understand those complex physical and mathematical formulas.
Fortunately, while formulas accounted for more than seventy percent of the presentation, the dynamic diagrams made it possible for them to grasp at least some of the underlying mysteries.
Still, after attending this "unconventional" lecture, he felt that the worldview he had spent decades building had practically been rewritten from top to bottom.
It had taken less than a second to factor a product of prime numbers exceeding 1,024 bits. That at least indicated that the calculator in Lu Zhou's hands possessed no fewer than five hundred qubits.
Yet that was not even the most important part. The most important part was that this quantum computer was only the size of a palm! It was countless times smaller than the quantum computer at the Hua Academy of Sciences!
And in terms of a direct comparison, their best result was only twenty qubits...
Even that was this year's latest achievement.
Beyond that, compared with the box-sized quantum computer, what shocked him even more was Academician Lu himself, standing onstage and explaining those theories to them.
Mathematics, Physics, materials science, integrated circuit design... If divided more finely, the knowledge covered in that lecture could be broken down into more than a dozen academic disciplines.
Yet for that young