<h4>1188 Biggest Misunderstanding in Science</h4>


    Perhaps because Director Li was a little embarrassed, he spoke in a quiet voice.


    However, the quiet voice didn’t work on Lu Zhou, who rolled his eyes and said, “I was just telling you what the key bottlenecks are, I’m not the one that wants to solve this problem!”


    Director Li doubled down on his intentions.


    “But... you already know what the problem is, can’t you just solve it?”


    Lu Zhou looked at Director Li’s mischievous smile and had a thought.


    Does this guy think I’m his little puppet?


    Yeah, probably...


    There’s an 80% chance he does...


    ...


    Lu Zhou told Director Li that he would “think about it”. After Director Li left, Lu Zhou called Wang Peng and went to the parking lot.


    After Lu Zhou got in his car and Wang Peng began driving on the road, Lu Zhou suddenly said, “Wang Peng.”


    “What?”


    Lu Zhou asked, “In your opinion, what is science?”


    Wang Peng was ustomed to Lu Zhou asking him weird questions.


    After thinking for a while, he spoke.


    “I think it’s a way of solving problems, like—”


    “It’s a way for us to boil water and make nes fly... Kind of like that?”


    Wang Peng pondered for a second and nodded.


    “Sort of.”


    Lu Zhou sighed.


    “That’s the biggest misunderstanding in science.”


    Wang Peng: “...?”


    Lu Zhou: “Let’s go to the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.”


    Wang Peng looked in the rearview mirror.


    “Don’t you have a meeting at three o’clock?”


    “I’ll call Chen Yushan,” Lu Zhou said. “She can go instead.”


    ...


    The interactions inside a quantummunication system caused the coherence of the pure state in the system to decay, thereby increasing the randomness of the internal phase in each superimposedponent. This resulted in the failure of quantum information transmission.


    An ideal solution was to add a repeater, just like traditionalmunication methods. The repeater would amplify the attenuated signal and transmit it.


    However, even though this sounded easy, it was extremely difficult in the case of quantummunication. Because quantummunication was mainly based on the quantum effect of a single-photon spin state, optical amplification could destroy qubits.


    Currently, there were two types of ry technologies; one was trusted rys, whereas the other was quantum rys.


    The former was simr to key rys; it allowed the key to be passed between trusted workstations. It was easier to implement, but the problem was that once the ry station was controlled by a third party, the third party could easily eavesdrop.


    In other words, the security of this type of ry was based on the security of the workstations.


    Whereas thetter was based on quantum entanglement distribution technology. This established shared entangled pairs between neighboring sites, and it stored the entangled pairs using quantum storage technology. It used entanglement conversion operations to achieve a shared entanglement between neighboring sites.


    In terms of security, thetter was unrivaled. However, it was much more technically difficult; so difficult that the academicmunity had given up on it since 2007.


    Objectively speaking, if themunication was only within the country, for example, as a military dedicated line, using a trusted ry waspletely sufficient. For example, the “Beijing-Shanghai Communication Line” was protected by the military, making it extremely secure.


    However, when themunication expanded to a global scale, the security of overseas servers couldn’t be guaranteed. There was always a risk in trusted rys.


    In the era of information globalization, it was impossible for any country to break away from the inte. Director Li wanted a piece of technology that was widely applicable.


    Therefore, the key to the problem was solving the bottleneck of the quantum repeater.


    After arriving at the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, Lu Zhou called Chen Yushan and told her to handle the afternoon meeting. He then typed an email and sent the meeting outline to her.


    The main topic of the meeting was regarding the work arrangement of the lunar mass driver project. Since he had already arranged the work in advance, he did not need to be there in person.


    In contrast, there were more important things waiting for him to do.


    After Lu Zhou arrived at the underground floor level, he walked into theboratory where he did research on the carbon-based quantum processor chips. He looked at the carbon-based integrated circuit board sitting inside a transparent container and spoke to himself.


    “I originally nned to research this after Iplete the Control of Earth and Moon mission.


    “Maybe I should give it a try first.”


    Lu Zhou signaled Xiao Ai to suction out the inert gas inside the transparent container. He then put on a special pair of gloves and unlocked the container. He took out the well-preserved carbon-based integrated circuit board.


    The technical difficulty of a quantum repeater could be divided into three parts; entanglement exchange, entanglement purification, and quantum storage.


    The first two were rtively easy, while thest one was on the same level of difficulty as a quantumputer.


    What was interesting was that the research on quantum memory and quantumputers had many oveps. The only difference was that quantum memory was required for long-distance quantummunication, but it was not needed for quantumputers.


    If he could solve quantum memory, he could create a more advanced quantumputer; if he couldn’t, he would still have ess to a quantumputer... which was the one he built.


    In fact, there was a reason why Lu Zhou hadn’t researched quantum memory technology.


    He thought that, with the breakthrough of quantumputer technology and its widespread application inmercial fields, capitalism would naturally push toward quantum memory technology. People would seek to build a faster and more powerful quantumputer.


    Once that day came, he wouldn’t have to do anything himself, nor would he need to waste precious general points. He could easily gain ess to quantum memory technology.


    “The quantum entanglement between the memory stored in the system and any remote system has to be maintained throughout the storage time...


    “If this entanglement breaks at any time, such as a copse due to external observation, then the device will no longer function as a quantum memory storage device. Instead, it will transform into an entanglement interrupt channel that can only transmit traditional information.


    “This is going to be difficult...”


    Lu Zhou stared at the integrated circuit board on the experimental table and pondered for a long time.


    After a few minutes, he suddenly thought of something.


    “This isn’t something I can do alone.


    “But...


    “I’m not alone.”


    Xiao Ai: [(??????)]


    Lu Zhou, who was sitting at the experiment table, picked up a pen and wrote a line of words on a piece of draft paper.


    [Three-Dimensional Quantum Memory]


    Lu Zhou looked at the title on the paper and nodded with satisfaction.


    “We’ll use this name for now!”