Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun stayed in Germany for almost a week. The goal was naturally to purchase the old model "30mk ultra-low temperature strong magnetic field scanning tunneling microscope system" mentioned by Professor Coppet from Professor Lei Si's laboratory, and

Recruit people.

With Professor Coppett's letter of introduction and the guidance of his student Harold, Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun finally met Professor Lais and saw this precious equipment that they had longed for.

The equipment is indeed a bit old, but it is well maintained, all functions are normal, and it is also equipped with a complete set of arpes (angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy) leis (low-energy particle scattering spectroscopy) eels (electron energy loss spectroscopy) mbe (

Molecular beam epitaxy) combined system, the energy resolution can reach 50 microelectron volts.

This high-end experimental equipment produced by a German manufacturer of precision instruments and laboratory equipment ten years ago is inferior to the new 10mk equipment currently used by the University of Munich in terms of performance and indicators, but it can still be used.

Conducts cutting-edge experiments on ultra-low temperature unconventional superconducting materials and ultra-low temperature physical materials.

Qin Ke also made a special call back to China and asked Uncle Yang about university laboratories across the country. Only Nanda University had a similar model of equipment from the same factory. It was purchased and imported at a sky-high price fifteen years ago, and the model was smaller than this.

The station is older and can only reach 40mk. It is still protected by NTU as a treasure. It is a key equipment used by the school for research on ultra-cold atom quantum simulation.

After learning this, Qin Ke is even more determined to get the "30mk ultra-low temperature strong magnetic field scanning tunneling microscope system" that he now has the opportunity to get.

However, he also knew that he was not good at business negotiations, so he simply made an overseas phone call and asked Zhou Shutao, CEO of Qingning Technology, to rush to Germany with his negotiation team and business backbone to participate in procurement negotiations.

Professor Lais is indeed short of money. His laboratory has been unable to pay wages for three months, and the researchers are clamoring to resign. Therefore, after seeing Kopet's letter of introduction, he quickly agreed to sell this high-end machine.

equipment.

However, the two sides still conducted difficult negotiations for three days on the price. Although Qin Ke was very enthusiastic about this device, he did not want to be taken advantage of. Finally, with the efforts of Qingning Technology’s negotiation team, Professor Laisi agreed to

We sold this equipment for 20 million euros and took the initiative to help contact the original factory for transportation, installation and commissioning, as well as daily use and daily maintenance training. Of course, the latter also requires additional payment.

In the end, this equipment (including the attached arpes leis eels mbe combined system) was packed and moved back to China, and the installation and debugging was completed and it could be put into use. Plus various taxes, fees, and labor hours, the total cost would be 2,500

About 10,000 euros, equivalent to approximately 185 million yuan.

Such a huge purchase would also involve the process of importing equipment, so Qin Ke would naturally not hide it from Uncle Yang who was far away in the capital.

"What? You spent 20 million to buy back equipment that was originally worth nearly 30 million euros?"

When Lao Yang received Qin Ke's call, he almost jumped out of his office chair. He naturally knew how precious and difficult to purchase such high-precision equipment. He was afraid of long nights and nightmares, so he quickly asked his secretary Lu Xinping to keep an eye on the matter and supervise everyone.

Special approvals were given for each link, and the green light was given all the way, striving to help Qin Ke's Qing Ning Technology complete the import of this high-end experimental equipment as quickly as possible.

It is said that in order to clear the gates on the Deguo side and prevent anyone from jumping out to obstruct and increase variables, Uncle Yang secretly made a lot of efforts, making more than a hundred phone calls and initiating a lot of relationships. For this reason, his hair became grayer.

Hundreds of roots.

With the promotion and efforts of all parties, as well as the extremely positive reputations of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun in the world, the "30mk ultra-low temperature strong magnetic field scanning tunneling microscope system" was finally completed in Germany only one week later.

The entire process of packing, shipping, customs declaration, and departure is carried across the ocean by a professional transport fleet and sails to the port of Xia Kingdom...

After signing the purchase contract, Qin Ke faced another headache: where to store the high-end experimental equipment he bought.

Such high-end experimental equipment naturally has strict requirements for the dust-free environment of the laboratory and power supply stability.

The equipment is expected to arrive in Xia's capital in about fifteen days, and Qin Ke cannot have time to build a new laboratory.

Senior brother Xu Qingyan's "Qingbei Integrated Circuit and Chip Joint R&D Innovation Center" is a good place, and it also has a research and development laboratory for chip materials. However, considering that this topological quantum computing project will introduce scientific research talents from Germany, then

It would be inappropriate to choose "Qingbei Integrated Circuit and Chip Joint R&D Innovation Center".

After all, whether it is the optimization work of "Qiguang EDA" or the research work on chip materials and chip architecture, it needs to be kept confidential.

As for other options... Qin Ke's connections in the domestic scientific research community were not extensive enough. After thinking about it, instead of using those connections in the Ning family, it would be better to continue to trouble Uncle Yang.

Such an old man can get countless useful information with just a few words.

So before Qin Ke flew back to his motherland, he made another overseas phone call to Uncle Yang and asked him to help find a suitable laboratory, and Qing Ning Technology would complete the procurement work.

Uncle Yang asked seriously on the phone: "Qin Ke, tell me, how sure are you that you can complete this scientific research project on topological quantum computing?"

Qin Ke smiled and said: "A conservative estimate, ninety-five percent, right?"

"Conservative...95%?" Uncle Yang took a deep breath and suddenly slapped the table: "Okay, I believe you! As long as you and Xiao Ning have such confidence, Uncle Yang will dare to give approval to the superiors! Everything

Uncle Yang will bear all the pressure and risks for you!"

Uncle Yang's work efficiency is very high, and the superiors obviously attach great importance to this matter. When the international flight taken by Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun landed at the international airport in Beijing, Secretary Lu Xinping had already brought several technical experts at the exit.

Waiting.

After the simple greetings, Lu Xinping said warmly: "Professor Qin, Professor Ning, the boss has chosen three quantum materials laboratories for you. You go and take a look first and choose which one you like. They are all in the capital, or Li Qingmu University.

Closer, or closer to your plant breeding laboratory, the basic experimental equipment is also complete."

As he spoke, he lowered his voice: "Three of them are research laboratories under our science and technology management department. Because they have only spent funds for a long time without any results, after the special operation in early August, all the funds were cut off, and the original person in charge also started

Get rid of it. Just tell me which laboratory you like, and I will handle the transfer procedures for you. You can handle the original scientific researchers there. Keep the ones you want, and fire all the ones you don’t want."

Qin Ke understood as soon as he heard it. It turned out to be the laboratory to be processed, and that was the most suitable one.

Regardless of the fatigue of the long flight, he and Ning Qingyun got in Lu Xinping's car and visited all three laboratories. As expected, the conditions were relatively good in all aspects, which showed that Uncle Yang was really worried about them.

A lot of thought.

In the end, Qin and Ke chose a laboratory only three kilometers away from Qingmu University.

This quantum materials laboratory is not large, with only about 20 original scientific researchers. It is a medium-sized laboratory, but the laboratory is equipped with relatively complete quantum material experimental equipment, including scanning tunneling microscope (stm), suspension zone method

Single crystal furnaces, various tubular and chamber-type high-temperature furnaces, sample packaging systems, glove boxes, thin film growth equipment, comprehensive physical property measurement systems (ppms), etc. were originally used to study physical topics such as high-temperature superconductivity, low-dimensional and magnetic materials.

It is said that this quantum materials laboratory was once brilliant for a while, but then the original person in charge went to the State Key Laboratory of Applied Surface Physics at Aurora University to become the director. The new person in charge was very frustrated.

Although he received funding for the project, he only focused on his own personal work, and almost always ignored the projects issued by the state. Every year, he modified and whitewashed the experimental results of his predecessor before submitting them. This time, he was naturally ignored by Uncle Yang.

In Operation Thunder, he was directly dismissed from his post and expelled, and he was kicked out.

Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun looked at it again, and then asked Harold who was accompanying them to check all the equipment. Harold said that as long as a few more equipment and instruments were purchased, they would be able to basically meet the requirements for conducting topological quantum computing experiments.

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Qin Ke immediately made the decision to purchase this quantum materials laboratory.

The purchase was followed up by Qingning Technology CEO Zhou Shutao, and with a secretary like Lu Xinping personally following up, the entire transfer procedure was handled quickly and smoothly. It only took three days for this quantum materials laboratory to be completed.

The equity transfer was quietly completed and the name was changed to "Qingning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory".

Qing Ning Technology, owned by Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, invested in high-end equipment and technology, holding 80% of the shares. The National Quantum Computing Industry Investment Fund, a subsidiary of the science and technology management department, held 20% of the shares in the form of land, buildings and original equipment.

According to the agreement signed by the two parties, the National Quantum Computing Industry Investment Fund will not participate in the management and will not interfere in any affairs of the laboratory; Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun serve as the director and deputy director of the laboratory, and they have one-vote veto power and the entire laboratory

All management rights of the laboratory; the ownership rights of all scientific research results of the laboratory are in the hands of two people, but the National Quantum Computing Industry Investment Fund can enjoy 20% of the after-tax net profit dividends.

The biggest advantage of this shareholding structure, which is similar to a "joint venture," is that it allows the "Qing Ning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory" to legitimately apply for national scientific research funding, enjoy tax benefits, and apply for national protection when necessary.

Such generous and enviable conditions are naturally the result of the country's trust and support for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, and are also a reward for their free donation of the "Perfect Desert Sweet Potato" and "Precision Drip Irrigation Technology" patents and all research materials.

The "Qing Ning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory" was established quietly, and together with the introduction of the high-end equipment, it did not attract much attention. This is what Qin Ke meant. Everything has not started yet, and there is no need to spread it.

It only adds to the trouble of various interviews.

After solving the hardware conditions such as equipment and laboratory procurement, what remains is the talent issue.

When Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun stayed in Deguo, they handed over the task of purchasing equipment to Zhou Shutao, and they focused on recruiting talents.

The first talent he recruited was Harold, Coppett's original assistant.

Harold Aldrich is a postdoctoral fellow in quantum mechanics at the Department of Physics at the University of Munich. After graduation, he has been engaged in research work in condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics with his mentor Professor Koppet. He is 33 years old this year, but because he is a bit shy,

He is not good at interacting with girls, has no girlfriend, and is not married. He is a typical older single scientific research dog.

Recruiting Harold is not difficult. Firstly, he has put a lot of effort into this topic of topological quantum computing and is reluctant to give up like this. Secondly, now that the research team has been disbanded, he is effectively unemployed, and Qingning Technology has given

The treatment was very generous; thirdly, he admired Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun from the bottom of his heart, so under Copet's persuasion, the single young man called his parents and readily agreed.

Join Qing Ning Technology, go to Xia State to work for Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun, and continue to conduct research on topological quantum computing.

Qin Ke plans to appoint him as the actual head of the "Qing Ning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory" and give him the same salary package as Wei Xueming of the Plant Cultivation Laboratory.

Most of the dozens of other people in Professor Kopet's original research team were unwilling to leave their hometowns to work and live in a distant and unfamiliar country. However, Kopet's persuasion was very effective, and in the end there were still nineteen young researchers.

Agree to join the Xia Guo team, but unlike Harold who signed a five-year contract, they only signed a one-year contract. After one year, whether to continue working for Qing Ning Technology or resign and return to Deguo, it’s up to them.

Discuss later.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Qin Ke has no objection to this. He is confident that he will complete this topological quantum computing topic within eight or nine months. It is estimated that most of these people will not think about it by then.

Left - For pure scientific researchers, as long as the salary is good enough and they can continue to achieve scientific research achievements, it is the most perfect place to work.

As for the rest of the researchers, he only left two technicians from the Atomic Quantum Materials Laboratory. These two people were of good quality and had down-to-earth personalities. The rest were not good enough or looked like old fools who were just messing around. Qin Ke didn't like any of them.

They were dismissed politely. Since they were compensated strictly in accordance with the labor contract, these researchers did not cause trouble. They just regretted that they could not stay. After all, Qingning Technology was famous for its high salary in the industry.

In this way, the "Qing Ning Technology Quantum Computing Laboratory" will have twenty-two formal researchers. Qin Ke plans to recruit eight more people from domestic laboratories and research institutes. In the end, the entire laboratory's establishment will be

Thirty-five people.

Naturally, he and Ning Qingjun are the chief and deputy directors. The specific technical person in charge is Harold. There are nineteen scientific research talents imported from the country, ten scientific research talents recruited from the country, and two additional translators and one

The general affairs staff is basically a complete laboratory structure.

If the domestic technical personnel leave in the future, we will recruit domestic talents and ultimately focus on cultivating domestic technical personnel.

Except for Harold who will return to Xia State with Qin Ke, the other scientific researchers from Germany will arrive in Xia State's capital one after another within ten days. The specific pick-up, entry matters, food and accommodation arrangements, etc. do not require Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.

If you don't worry about it, Qing Ning Technology's human resources department and logistics office department will naturally handle it properly.
To be continued...