Dr Odile Smits
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics

Publications
Journal Articles
Hasted, J. C., Fairhall, C. J., Smits, O. R., Roberts, B. M. and Ginges, J. S. M. (2025). Vacuum polarization corrections to hyperfine structure in many-electron atoms. Physical Review A, 111 (3) 032812. doi: 10.1103/physreva.111.032812
Vandeleur, J., Sanamyan, G., Smits, O. R., Valuev, I. A., Oreshkina, N. S. and Ginges, J. S. M. (2025). Smallness of the Nuclear Polarization Effect in the Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Muonic Atoms as a Stimulus for Next-Generation Experiments. Physical Review Letters, 134 (9) 093003, 1-5. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.093003
Cooper, Shaun, Robles-Navarro, Andres, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2025). The theory of Barlow packings: Basic properties and cohesive energies from exact lattice summations within the sticky hard-sphere model. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 162 (1) 014105, 1. doi: 10.1063/5.0241375
Cooper, Shaun, Robles-Navarro, Andres, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2024). From hard to soft dense sphere packings: the cohesive energy of barlow structures using exact lattice summations for a general Lennard-Jones potential. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15 (32), 8387-8392. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01986
Florez, Edison, Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan-Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2022). From the gas phase to the solid state: the chemical bonding in the superheavy element flerovium. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 157 (6) 064304, 1-6. doi: 10.1063/5.0097642
Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2021). Oganesson: a noble gas element that is neither noble nor a gas. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 59 (52), 23636-23640. doi: 10.1002/anie.202011976
Smits, Odile R., Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2020). Oganesson: Ein Edelgas, das weder edel noch ein Gas ist. Angewandte Chemie, 132 (52), 23843-23848. doi: 10.1002/ange.202011976
Schwerdtfeger, Peter, Smits, Odile R. and Pyykkö, Pekka (2020). The periodic table and the physics that drives it. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 4 (7), 359-380. doi: 10.1038/s41570-020-0195-y
Smits, O. R., Jerabek, P., Pahl, E. and Schwerdtfeger, P. (2020). First-principles melting of krypton and xenon based on many-body relativistic coupled-cluster interaction potentials. Physical Review B, 101 (10) 104103, 10. doi: 10.1103/physrevb.101.104103
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Smits, Odile R., Kresse, Georg and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Copernicium: A Relativistic Noble Liquid. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (50), 17964-17968. doi: 10.1002/anie.201906966
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Smits, Odile R., Kresse, Georg and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Copernicium: A Relativistic Noble Liquid. Angewandte Chemie, 131 (50), 18132-18136. doi: 10.1002/ange.201906966
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Oganesson Is a Semiconductor: On the Relativistic Band‐Gap Narrowing in the Heaviest Noble‐Gas Solids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 58 (40), 14260-14264. doi: 10.1002/anie.201908327
Mewes, Jan‐Michael, Jerabek, Paul, Smits, Odile R. and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2019). Oganesson ist ein Halbleiter: Über die relativitische Bandlückenkontraktion in den schwersten Edelgasen. Angewandte Chemie, 131 (40), 14398-14402. doi: 10.1002/ange.201908327
Smits, Odile R., Jerabek, Paul, Pahl, Elke and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2018). A Hundred‐Year‐Old Experiment Re‐evaluated: Accurate Ab Initio Monte Carlo Simulations of the Melting of Radon. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 57 (31), 9961-9964. doi: 10.1002/anie.201803353
Smits, Odile R., Jerabek, Paul, Pahl, Elke and Schwerdtfeger, Peter (2018). Ein hundert Jahre altes Experiment auf dem Prüfstand: hochgenaue Ab‐Initio‐Monte‐Carlo‐Schmelzsimulationen von Radon. Angewandte Chemie, 130 (31), 10109-10113. doi: 10.1002/ange.201803353