Edmund Myers

Dr. Edmund G. Myers
Research Professor and University Distinguished Scholar

Education:

BA: University of Oxford, Merton College, 1978

D.Phil: University of Oxford, 1982

Employment History:

1982-85: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, NJ

1983-86: Research Visitor, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ

1986-2014: Staff Physicist, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University

2014-present: Research Professor, Dept. of Physics, Florida State University

Awards:

2005 Fellow of the American Physical Society

2005 NIST Precision Measurement Award

2010 University Distinguished Scholar

 

Research Interests:

Experimental atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics, precision measurement for tests of fundamental physics and physical constants, Penning ion traps, high precision laser spectroscopy, ion sources and accelerators. 

Recent Publications:

"Mass of helium-4 from cyclotron frequency ratios ⁴He⁺/D₂⁺ and ⁴He⁺/H₂D⁺" M. Medina Restropo, M Fernandez Davila, E.G. Myers, PRA, 112, L040801 (2025)

“Mass difference of tritium and helium-3”, M. Medina-Restrepo and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243002 (2023)

 

“Deuteron-to-proton mass ratio from simultaneous measurement of the cyclotron frequencies of H₂⁺ and D⁺”, D. J. Fink and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243001 (2021).

 

“Deuteron-to-proton mass ratio from the cyclotron frequency ratio of H₂⁺ and D⁺ with H₂⁺ in a resolved vibrational state”, D. J. Fink and E. G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 013001 (2020).

 

"CPT tests with the antihydrogen molecular ion", E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. A 98, 010101(R)(2018).

 

"Rotational energy as mass in H₃⁺ and lower limits on the atomic masses of D and ³He", J.A. Smith, S. Hamzeloui, D.J. Fink, and E.G. Myers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143002 (2018).