Abstract:A relativistic pseudopotentional (RPP) for use in ab initio molecular electronic structure calculations is derived in the context of the relativistic effective core potential (REP) method of Lee et al. The resulting atom-specific RPP has salient features of the REP imbedded within it while retaining the form of a functional that is dynamically defined at runtime when used in calculations on molecules. The RPP is determined from Dirac-Fock wave functions for the isolated atom. Outer core two-electron interactio… Show more
“…Both of these effects are addressed using a procedure in which the outer cores, represented currently using VLC RECPs, are permitted to undergo a self-consistent field relaxation due to the molecular environment, that is, through a geometryand state-dependent functional called the relativistic pseudopotentional. 19 For example, the ability to incorporate six of the seven f subshell electrons in Am into the outer core leaves only three electrons that will require explicit treatment. It is seen in Table 6 that the splitting between the 5f 5/2 and 5f 7/2 ASs is 3 eV.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Thus, it is imperative to incorporate both the effects of core/valence polarization and the effects of nonlocal electron repulsion phenomena since these errors are large and are of opposite sign. Both of these effects are addressed using a procedure in which the outer cores, represented currently using VLC RECPs, are permitted to undergo a self-consistent field relaxation due to the molecular environment, that is, through a geometry- and state-dependent functional called the relativistic pseudopotentional . For example, the ability to incorporate six of the seven f subshell electrons in Am into the outer core leaves only three electrons that will require explicit treatment.…”
Atomic calculations using small-core relativistic effective core potentials (RECPs) explicitly treating outer core electrons are used to define two-component nodeless valence spinors (NVSs) and nodeless valence pseudospinors (NVPSs). Errors attributable to nonlocal electron repulsion interactions that arise from large-core RECPs are shown to result from the inherent arbitrariness in the choice of match points and number of derivatives that define shape-consistent pseudospinors, as well as the positions of radial nodes that reside in the outer core regions of atoms. Self-consistent field calculations in omegaomega-coupling for InH and InCl using RECPs derived from NVSs and NVPSs are reported. Increased bond distances relative to those calculated using very-large-core RECPs for In agree with those due to frozen 4d(3/2) and 4d(5/2) spinors and a small-core RECP. Results for AmCl+2 also reveal that the shortening in the bond length is recovered when the very-large-core RECP is derived using nodeless valence (pseudo)spinors.
“…Both of these effects are addressed using a procedure in which the outer cores, represented currently using VLC RECPs, are permitted to undergo a self-consistent field relaxation due to the molecular environment, that is, through a geometryand state-dependent functional called the relativistic pseudopotentional. 19 For example, the ability to incorporate six of the seven f subshell electrons in Am into the outer core leaves only three electrons that will require explicit treatment. It is seen in Table 6 that the splitting between the 5f 5/2 and 5f 7/2 ASs is 3 eV.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, it is imperative to incorporate both the effects of core/valence polarization and the effects of nonlocal electron repulsion phenomena since these errors are large and are of opposite sign. Both of these effects are addressed using a procedure in which the outer cores, represented currently using VLC RECPs, are permitted to undergo a self-consistent field relaxation due to the molecular environment, that is, through a geometry- and state-dependent functional called the relativistic pseudopotentional . For example, the ability to incorporate six of the seven f subshell electrons in Am into the outer core leaves only three electrons that will require explicit treatment.…”
Atomic calculations using small-core relativistic effective core potentials (RECPs) explicitly treating outer core electrons are used to define two-component nodeless valence spinors (NVSs) and nodeless valence pseudospinors (NVPSs). Errors attributable to nonlocal electron repulsion interactions that arise from large-core RECPs are shown to result from the inherent arbitrariness in the choice of match points and number of derivatives that define shape-consistent pseudospinors, as well as the positions of radial nodes that reside in the outer core regions of atoms. Self-consistent field calculations in omegaomega-coupling for InH and InCl using RECPs derived from NVSs and NVPSs are reported. Increased bond distances relative to those calculated using very-large-core RECPs for In agree with those due to frozen 4d(3/2) and 4d(5/2) spinors and a small-core RECP. Results for AmCl+2 also reveal that the shortening in the bond length is recovered when the very-large-core RECP is derived using nodeless valence (pseudo)spinors.
We have investigated the structure and electronic properties of cesium clusters following all electron ab initio theoretical methods based on configuration interaction, second-order Moller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory, and density-functional theory. Becke's three-parameter nonlocal hybrid exchange-correlation functional (B3LYP) is found to perform best on the present systems with a split valence 3-21G basis function. We have calculated the optimized geometries of neutral and singly charged cesium clusters having up to ten atoms, their binding energy per atom, ionization potentials (IPs), and adiabatic electron affinity (EA). Geometry optimizations for all the clusters are carried out without imposing any symmetry restriction. The neutral clusters having up to six atoms prefer planar structure and three-dimensional structure is preferred only when the number of atoms in a cluster is more than six. There is a good agreement between the present theoretical and reported experimental IP values for the neutral clusters with cluster size n
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