Shengshuang Nie (聶深雙)
Southern University of Science and Technology
Shengshuang Nie is a second-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology, working under the supervision of Associate Professor Mingyang Guo. Shengshuang's primary research focuses on experimental studies of ultracold dipolar quantum gases. As a key team member, she contributed to building an experimental setup for ultracold dysprosium atoms within a single year, establishing the magnetic, optical, and vacuum systems. The team achieved a narrow-linewidth five-beam magneto-optical trap (MOT) for dysprosium atoms—obtaining approximately 3 x10^8 atoms at 10 μK —and loaded them into an optical dipole trap (ODT) using scanning ODT techniques. Through evaporative cooling, the setup realized Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC), with ongoing system optimization pushing the yield to approximately 1.5 x 10^5 condensate atoms at 20nK. Shengshuang aims to further deepen understanding of ultracold atomic systems through collaborative discussions during the summer course.