Oct 25, 2016 · The effective core potential (ECP) approach is one of the oldest and still one of the most frequently used methods in relativistic quantum chemistry [ 1, 2 ]. Following chemical intuition, an atom is partitioned into a core and a valence electron system. The chemically inert core of the atom is considered to be frozen. The title compounds, [AnO2(H2O)5]n+, n = 1 or 2 and An = U, Np, and Pu, are studied using relativistic density functional theory (DFT). Three rather different relativistic methods are used, small-core effective core potentials (SC-ECP), a scalar four-component all-electron relativistic method, and the zeroeth-order regular approximation. The methods provide similar results for a variety of ...Ab initio effective core potentials (ECP's) have been generated to replace the Coulomb, exchange, and core‐orthogonality effects of the chemically inert core electron in the transition metal atoms Sc to Hg. For the second and third transition series relative ECP's have been generated which also incorporate the mass-velocity and Darwin relativistic effects into the potential.Ab initio effective core potentials (ECP's) have been generated to replace the innermost core electron for third‐row (K-Au), fourth‐row (Rb-Ag), and fifth‐row (Cs-Au) atoms. The outermost core orbitals—corresponding to the ns2np6 configuration for the three rows here—are not replaced by the ECP but are treated on an equal footing with the nd, (n+1)s and (n+1)p valence orbitals.Calculate electronic excited states using neural networks with effective core potential. The essence of atomic structure theory, quantum chemistry, and computational materials science is solving the multi-electron stationary Schrödinger equation. The Quantum Monte Carlo-based neural network wave function method has surpassed traditional post ...A two-component quasirelativistic Hamiltonian based on spin-dependent effective core potentials is used to calculate ionization energies and electron affinities of the heavy halogen atom bromine through the superheavy element 117 (eka-astatine) as well as spectroscopic constants of the homonuclear dimers of these atoms.The present manuscript discusses the two branches of e ective core potential (ECP) approaches, i.e., the model potential (MP) and the pseudopotential (PP) tech-niques. The main focus is on those ECP schemes which proved to be successful in atomic and molecular relativistic electronic structure calculations during the past@article{osti_20640980, title = {Properties of metastable alkaline-earth-metal atoms calculated using an accurate effective core potential}, author = {Santra, Robin and Christ, Kevin V and Greene, Chris H}, abstractNote = {The first three electronically excited states in the alkaline-earth-metal atoms magnesium, calcium, and strontium comprise the (nsnp){sup 3}P{sub J}{sup o}(J=0,1,2) fine ...Effective Core Potential - By Dolg - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Michael dolg outlines the basic ideas of the relativistic ab initio effective core potential method. The underlying approximations as well as the differences between the two commonly used versions, i.e., model potentials and pseudopotentials, are discussed.Aug 19, 2009 · In our previous work we examined DFT using all-electron basis sets, but approaches incorporating effective core potentials (ECPs) are effective in reducing computational expense. With this in mind, our efforts were expanded to include evaluation of the performance of the basis set derived to approximate such an approach as well on the same set ... Accordingly, we present in this paper a report on the capability of various ab initio effective core potential calculations in reproducing the coordination polyhedron geometries of lanthanide complexes. Starting with all combinations of HF, B3LYP and MP2(Full) with STO-3G, 3-21G, 6-31G, 6-31G* and 6-31+G basis sets for [Eu(H2O)9]3+ and closing ...Abstract: The ab initio model potential method and its applications to atoms, molecules, and solids are reviewed here stressing its main characteristic of enabling a common computational strategy for effective core potential calculations in molecules and embedded cluster calculations of defects in solids and surface chemistry. As an effective core potential method it is shown to be very close ...Fermionic neural network with effective cor e potential. Xiang Li ,1,*Cunwei Fan ,2,†Weiluo Ren,1and Ji Chen 3, 1 ByteDance Inc., Zhonghang Plaza, No. 43, North 3rd Ring West Road, Haidian ...Potential curves, vibrational term values, and spectroscopic constants for eighteen low-lying electronic states of Li 2 and eight electronic states of Li 2 + are obtained from all-electron SCF/valence CI calculations including core polarization effects by an effective potential. Previous theoretical results for experimentally known states appear to be significantly improved.The abinitio model potential method. First series transition metal elements. L. Seijo, Z. Barandiarán, S. Huzinaga. Published 1 December 1989. Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Physics. In the a b i n i t i o core model potential method the Coulomb and exchange core operators are represented accurately and the valence basis set is the only ...In order to calibrate the functionals and effective core potential/basis sets, we have decided to evaluate the geometry of the Fc 0 /Fc + RC system. Table S1 shows the optimized Fe-C, C-C, and C-H bond lengths using different XC functionals and pseudopotentials. All optimizations were further characterized by frequency calculations.Low-lying potential energy curves of the IBr molecule are calculated by a combination of the equation of motion coupled cluster method and the spin–orbit multireference configuration interaction with single excitations, employing in both cases accurate relativistic effective core potentials and an extended valence basis set.The title compounds, [AnO2(H2O)5]n+, n = 1 or 2 and An = U, Np, and Pu, are studied using relativistic density functional theory (DFT). Three rather different relativistic methods are used, small-core effective core potentials (SC-ECP), a scalar four-component all-electron relativistic method, and the zeroeth-order regular approximation. The methods provide similar results for a variety of ...In our previous work we examined DFT using all-electron basis sets, but approaches incorporating effective core potentials (ECPs) are effective in reducing computational expense. With this in mind, our efforts were expanded to include evaluation of the performance of the basis set derived to approximate such an approach as well on the same set ...Abstract: The ab initio model potential method and its applications to atoms, molecules, and solids are reviewed here stressing its main characteristic of enabling a common computational strategy for effective core potential calculations in molecules and embedded cluster calculations of defects in solids and surface chemistry. As an effective core potential method it is shown to be very close ...Request PDF | On Jan 1, 2000, M. Dolg published Effective core potential | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGateA new generation of effective core potentials: selected lanthanides and heavy elements Haihan Zhou11, ∗and Benjamin Kincaid 1, Guangming Wang , Abdulgani Annaberdiyev 2, Panchapakesan Ganesh , and Lubos Mitas11 11) Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA 2) Center for Nanophase …Effective core potentials have been generated for Ti and Ni using atomic density functional theory (DFT) wave functions within the local density approximation. We find that these effective potentials give good agreement between all-electron and valence-electron calculations in TiF{sub 4} and Ni(CO){sub 4} for both the local-density (S-VWN) …2. RELATIVISTIC EFFECTIVE CORE POTENTIALS Within the relativistic effective core potential approxi-mation, the effective Hamiltonian for an atom is usually written in the form Heff = () 1 v v v v v v v p q p p q p p r > ∑ ∑ h U+ + . ... (1) The summation in Eq. (1) runs over a subset of electrons, which are treated explicitly and marked by theWe would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.Ab initio effective core potentials (ECP's) have been generated to replace the Coulomb, exchange, and core‐orthogonality effects of the chemically inert core electron in the transition metal atoms Sc to Hg. For the second and third transition series relative ECP's have been generated which also incorporate the mass-velocity and Darwin relativistic effects into the potential.Institute for Theoretical Chemistry. Energy-consistent Pseudopotentials of the Stuttgart/Cologne Group. Chose the data format and click an element in the periodic table to get the pseudopotential parameters and corresponding optimized valence basis sets ! Data format: Molpro Gaussian Turbomole Crystal06 and earlier versions Crystal09.Effective core potential (ECP) integrals are amongst the most difficult one-electron integrals to calculate due to the projection operators. The radial part of these operators may include r⁰, r ...Effective core potentials represent the interactions of atomic nuclei and inner electrons with an equivalent potential energy, simplifying the solution of multi-electron systems while preserving the characteristics of the outer electrons. By employing effective core potentials, we can enhance the precision and efficiency of the neuralA new generation of effective core potentials: selected lanthanides and heavy elements Haihan Zhou11, ∗and Benjamin Kincaid 1, Guangming Wang , Abdulgani Annaberdiyev 2, Panchapakesan Ganesh , and Lubos Mitas11 11) Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA 2) Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Division,The M08-SO was used with the basis set aug-cc-pVDZ-PP and an effective core potential (ECP) to determine the more stable structure of small gold clusters, Au n (2≤n ≤ 6). The averaged relativistic effective potential and spin-orbit operator for gold atoms are included in the effective core potential used . The populational analysis was also ...Ab initio effective core potentials (ECP's) have been generated to replace the innermost core electron for third‐row (K-Au), fourth‐row (Rb-Ag), and fifth‐row (Cs-Au) atoms. The outermost core orbitals—corresponding to the ns 2 np 6 configuration for the three rows here—are not replaced by the ECP but are treated on an equal footing with the nd, (n+1)s and (n+1)p valence ...The greatest computational savings are achieved when the two-component relativistic effective core potential (RECP) approximation suggested originally by Lee et al. [56] is used (e.g., see reviews ...The effective core potential (ECP) approach is one of the oldest and still one of the most frequently used methods in relativistic quantum chemistry [1, 2]. Following chemical intuition, an atom is partitioned into a core and a valence electron system. The chemically inert core of the atom is considered to be frozen. It is removedEffective core potentials represent the interactions of atomic nuclei and inner electrons with an equivalent potential energy, simplifying the solution of multi-electron systems while preserving the characteristics of the outer electrons. By employing effective core potentials, we can enhance the precision and efficiency of the neural[Show full abstract] (FermiNet) with the effective core potential method, which helps to reduce the complexity of the problem by replacing inner core electrons with additional semilocal potential ...The effective core potential (ECP) approach is one of the oldest and still one of the most frequently used methods in relativistic quantum chemistry [1, 2]. Following chemical intuition, an atom is partitioned into a core and a valence electron system. The chemically inert core of the atom is considered to be frozen.This effective core potential treats cobalt as thought it were a one-electron atom, and, represents the potential from the 3d electrons (as well as the other core electrons) with a spherical effective core potential. The ECP method we employ yields valence orbitals with the correct nodal structure. In our cobalt hydride calculations the ...Apr 1, 1993 · In this paper a complete set of effective core potentials (ECPs) and valence basis sets for the lanthanides (Ce to Lu) are derived. These ECPs are consistent not only within the lanthanide series, but also with the third‐row transition metals which bracket them. 1. Introduction. Relativistic effective core potential (RECP) methods, also called relativistic pseudopotential (PP) methods, are probably the most successful approximate methods for the various properties of molecules containing heavy atoms, since RECP calculations economically yield results that are very close to the all-electron results without introducing any empirical parameters [1, 2, 3, 4].Aug 28, 2020 · 8.10 Introduction to Effective Core Potentials (ECPs) The application of quantum chemical methods to elements in the lower half of the Periodic Table is more difficult than for the lighter atoms. There are two key reasons for this: •. the number of electrons in heavy atoms is large. •. relativistic effects in heavy atoms are often non-negligible. Effective core potentials. Pseudopotentials (effective core potentials, ECPs) may be defined at the beginning of BASIS blocks. The general form of the input cards is. which defines a pseudopotential for an atom specified either by a chemical symbol or a group number. The ECP specification may consist either of a single keyword, which references ... For the transition metals atoms (Au), we used the [SD (60, MDF)] scheme to describe the effective core potential (ECP) 50,51. Accordingly, the normal optimization convergence criteria have been ...@article{osti_5146072, title = {Effective core potential study of the mono- and tetracarbonyls of Ni, Pd, and Pt}, author = {Rohlfing, C M and Hay, P J}, abstractNote = {Effective core potentials (ECP's) are used to determine SCF equilibrium geometries and properties of the mono- and tetracarbonyls of nickel, palladium, and platinum. For Pd and Pt, potentials including relativistic effects are ...The two effective core potential schemes investigated are those of Hay and Wadt [33] (termed LANL2DZ in G aussian) and Stevens et al. [34] (CEP-31G in G aussian). In all cases, the valence basis sets of main group elements were augmented with a d-polarization function chosen from the 6-31G∗ or 6-311G∗ basis sets.An improved effective core potential (ECP) technique is described and used to give ECP parameters for the atoms of the first two rows of the periodic table. A given basis set is parametrized which allows for a direct comparison with all‐electron calculations. Extensive test calculations on first‐ and second‐row molecules using the ECP ...The effective core potential operators of the functional form first proposed by Kahn et al. 4, 5 are widely used today. The only effort in using them in a molecular calculation rests in the evaluation of their one-electron integrals which are their matrix elements with the Cartesian Gaussian functions of the basis set.The effective core potential (ECP) approach is one of the oldest and still one of the most frequently used methods in relativistic quantum chemistry [1, 2]. Following chemical intuition, an atom is partitioned into a core and a valence electron system. The chemically inert core of the atom is considered to be frozen. It is removedORCA can use effective core potentials (also called pseudopotentials) that can be useful for efficient calculations on molecules containing heavy elements as the chemically irrelevant core electrons are not explicitly part of the electronic problem and are replaced by a core potential function instead. Note, however, that ECPs are not the most ...Effective core potential (ECP) This module exposes some ecp integration functions from the C implementation. Reference for ecp integral computation * Analytical integration J. Chem. Phys. 65, 3826 J. Chem. Phys. 111, 8778 J. Comput. Phys. 44, 289 ... Number of core electrons for pseudo potential.The SDD effective core potential basis set is not suitable for the bond length calculation for PBDEs. The results of the two methods are close to the experimental data, while the all-electron basis set is more suitable for the bond length calculation for PBDEs than the SDD effective core potential basis set. The results show that the calculated ...Calculate electronic excited states using neural networks with effective core potential. The essence of atomic structure theory, quantum chemistry, and computational materials science is solving the multi-electron stationary Schrödinger equation. The Quantum Monte Carlo-based neural network wave function method has surpassed traditional post ...A formalism is developed for obtaining ab initio effective core potentials from numerical Hartree-Fock wavefunctions and such potentials are presented for C, N, O, F, Cl, Fe, Br, and I. The effective core potentials enable one to eliminate the core electrons and the associated orthogonality constraints from electronic structure calculations on atoms and molecules.Effective core potentials have been generated for Ti and Ni using atomic density functional theory (DFT) wave functions within the local density approximation. We find that these effective potentials give good agreement between all-electron and valence-electron calculations in TiF{sub 4} and Ni(CO){sub 4} for both the local-density (S-VWN) …Yours, Georg Here are the responses: ----- From: cory;at;bohr.chem.mun.ca (Cory C. Pye) An effective core potential includes a pseudopotential as part of its definition, as well as including some other terms that improve the asymptotic behaviour of the pseudopotential, like a Z/r term and l(l+1)/r^2 .The effective core potential (ECP) approximation has been vital in electronic structure calculations for several decades. An ECP is used to replace an …Jul 15, 1979 · A method is described for obtaining l‐dependent relativistic effective core potentials (ECP s) from Dirac–Fock self‐consistent field atomic wave functions.These potentials are designed for use in nonrelativistic (NR) valence electron Hartree–Fock calculations on atoms and molecules. the SDD effective core potential (ECP) on the Er atom (the combined basis set is denoted here 3-21G ∼SDD). The combined basis set is applied in the density functional theory (DFT) approach, namely using Becke's three parameter functional15 with the non-local Lee-Yang-Parr correlation functional16 (B3LYP/3-21G∼SDD treatment). The B3LYP/The present manuscript discusses the two branches of e ective core potential (ECP) approaches, i.e., the model potential (MP) and the pseudopotential (PP) tech-niques. The main focus is on those ECP schemes which proved to be successful in atomic and molecular relativistic electronic structure calculations during the pastEffective core potential methods for the lanthanides. Thomas R. Cundari; Walter J. Stevens. J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5555–5565 (1993) …A recently developed compact effective core potential (ECP) scheme for lanthanides [T. R. Cundari and W. J. Stevens, J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5555 (1993)] is applied to molecular species—the lanthanide trihalides (LnX 3, Ln=Ce to Lu; X=F, Cl, Br, I).This research is the first ECP study of lanthanide trihalides in which 4f electrons are explicitly included in the lanthanide valence space.What is the basis of effective core potentail (ECP) theory? Dear researchers, When, for example, LanL2DZ basis set is used for a heavy metal such as Ag (Silver), Gaussian divides its electrons to ...Effective core potential DFT calculations of nuclear shielding as a tool for the prediction and assignment of the tungsten chemical shift in mono- and polynuclear complexes Alessandro Bagno), Marcella Bonchio Centro CNR Meccanismi Reazioni Organiche, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Uni˝ersita di Pado` ˝a, ˝ia Marzolo 1,The problem is that an ECP is designed to produce the effective potential of core electrons, and an all-electron basis set will include basis functions meant to model the core electrons. At best, those core basis functions are poorly optimized for your problem. At worst, you will run into SCF convergence problems.The molecular structure of Th@Au 6 was optimized at the DFT level using the BP86 27, 28 functional and the MWB SDD effective core potential together with the def2-TZVPP valence basis set for Au 29 and the def-TZVP 30 valence basis set for Th. An effective core potential is a basis function (a pseudo -orbital) that is used to “substitute” the inner (core) electrons of an atom. The pseudo-orbitals are formulated to be nodeless in the core region ( Figure 1 ). 4 It provides a relativistic effective potential for each core orbital eliminating the need for core basis functions and ... calculation of effective core potential (ECP) integrals in quantum chemistry codes - GitHub - chrr/libECP: calculation of effective core potential (ECP) integrals in quantum chemistry codes8 Model Core Potentials in the First Decade of the XXI Century 211 where i is a core orbital and j is a valence one, is the cornerstone for the valence-core separability. Two different ways to enforce the strong orthogonality constraint led to two families of the pseudopotential methods: effective core potential(ECP) and modelcore potential(MCP).The generalized relativistic effective core potential (GRECP) method is analyzed from theoretical and computational points of view. The Hamiltonian in the frozen-core approximation is compared with the Hamiltonian containing the GRECP operator. It is demonstrated that the GRECP operator can be derived from rather natural physical …The effective core potential (ECP) approximation has been vital in electronic structure calculations for several decades. An ECP is used to replace an atom's core (nucleus and tightly bound electrons) and is constructed to mimic the original core's effects on the valence electrons. This approximation provides important benefits such as the ... You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another tab or window. Effective Core Potential - By Dolg - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Michael dolg outlines the basic ideas of the relativistic ab initio effective core potential method. The underlying approximations as well as the differences between the two commonly used versions, i.e., model potentials and pseudopotentials, are discussed.tive core potentials (ECP) have been being used widely to date for many types of molecules, due to their advantages [8, 20, 21]. Using ECP basis sets, helps to reduce the computational cost significantly, over the all electron basis sets, by replacing complete group of the inner electrons with a representative effective core potential [1, 22, 23].We have used effective core potential (def2-ECP) 43, 46 to treat the chemically inert gold core electrons in all our optimization and SPE calculations. Furthermore, to investigate the relativistic ...An ab initio configuration interaction (CI) study including the spin-orbit interaction is carried out for numerous valence and Rydberg states of the AsH radical by employing a relativistic effective core potential for the arsenic atom. Physical Review Link Manager It is proved that the small core relativistic Stuttgart effective core-potential performs better than the non-relativistic one for the optimization of structures of uranyl complexes. 51 Though the hybrid B3LYP functional gives the lowest total energy among all the four functional as shown in Table I, it is difficult to determine which ...1. Introduction. Relativistic effective core potential (RECP) methods, also called relativistic pseudopotential (PP) methods, are probably the most successful approximate methods for the various properties of molecules containing heavy atoms, since RECP calculations economically yield results that are very close to the all-electron results without introducing any empirical parameters [1, 2, 3, 4].We construct correlation-consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for a selected set of heavy atoms and f elements that are currently of significant interest in materials and chemical applications, including Y, Zr, Nb, Rh, Ta, Re, Pt, Gd, and Tb. As is customary, ccECPs consist of spin-orbit (SO) averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective SO terms.An ab initio configuration interaction (CI) study including the spin-orbit interaction is carried out for numerous valence and Rydberg states of the AsH radical by employing a relativistic effective core potential for the arsenic atom.In previous work we have shown that the PBE0 hybrid density functional method with the MG3 all-electron basis set is an accurate method for calculating the atomization energies of small aluminum clusters (Al 2-Al 7).However, the MG3 basis set is very expensive for molecules much larger than Al 13; therefore, we have developed a new effective core potential (ECP) method for aluminum to reduce ...Effective core potential integral and gradient evaluations are accelerated via implementation on graphical processing units (GPUs). Two simple formulas are proposed to estimate the upper bounds of the integrals, and these are used for screening. A sorting strategy is designed to balance the workload between GPU threads properly.Computational studies using DFT and an effective core potential appropriate for platinum were conducted on these Pt+(acetylene) n complexes to determine their structures and to predict IR spectra corresponding to each structural isomer identified.These results are summarized in Table 1, and theOct 5, 2012 · We present a set of effective core potential (ECP) basis sets for rhodium atoms which are of reasonable size for use in electronic structure calculations. In these ECP basis sets, the Los Alamos ECP is used to simulate the effect of the core electrons while an optimized set of Gaussian functions, which includes polarization and diffuse ... [Show full abstract] (FermiNet) with the effective core potential method, which helps to reduce the complexity of the problem by replacing inner core electrons with additional semilocal potential ...The metal's non-valence electrons were replaced by HayWadt effective core potential (ECP) [38] for further reduction of computational load. QM-MM interactions were dealt with in terms of ...Aug 19, 2009 · In our previous work we examined DFT using all-electron basis sets, but approaches incorporating effective core potentials (ECPs) are effective in reducing computational expense. With this in mind, our efforts were expanded to include evaluation of the performance of the basis set derived to approximate such an approach as well on the same set ... Barasiey's effective core potential [37] and by using a good quality basis set- As we have recently discussed in detail [381, this - originally atomic potential leads to an unbalanced treatment of core polarzation effects in molecules since it lacks electron-other core polarization contributions. Indeed. the OcuIations apparently exaggerate the ...
A method is described for obtaining l-dependent relativistic effective core potentials (ECPs) from Dirac-Fock self-consistent field atomic wave functions. These potentials are designed for use in nonrelativistic (NR) valence electron Hartree-Fock calculations on atoms and molecules. ... and previous relativistic core potential results. For the .... Thefcu
The Effective Core Potential Method. Ulf Wahlgren. Chapter. 884 Accesses. 3 Citations. Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Chemistry ( (LNC,volume 58)) Abstract. The …A formalism is developed for obtaining ab initio effective core potentials from numerical Hartree-Fock wavefunctions and such potentials are presented for C, N, O, F, Cl, Fe, Br, and I. The effective core potentials enable one to eliminate the core electrons and the associated orthogonality constraints from electronic structure calculations on atoms and molecules.ECP 4 effective core potential; DFT 4 density functional theory; IP 4 ionization potential. ECP basis set included as part of the computational package is LANL2DZ, which uses the LANL2 effec-tive core potential for the heavy atoms and a double zeta basis set for the lighter atoms. Other ECPs are available and have previously been described here.The nickel, palladium, and platinum atoms and their monohydrides are investigated using effective core potentials (ECP's) recently introduced by Hay and Wadt [J. Chem. Phys. 82, 270, 299 (1985)]. The palladium and platinum ECP's include relativistic effects. Two types of ECP's, which differ in their definition of the core region, are used in conjunction with large valence basis sets ...Mar 22, 2018 · Effective core potential (ECP) integrals are among the most difficult one-electron integrals to calculate due to the projection operators. The radial part of these operators may include r 0, r -1, and r -2 terms. For the r 0 terms, we exploit a simple analytic expression for the fundamental projected integral to derive new recurrence relations ... We have used effective core potential (def2-ECP) 43, 46 to treat the chemically inert gold core electrons in all our optimization and SPE calculations. Furthermore, to investigate the relativistic ...We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us.A consistent set of ab initio effective core potentials (ECP) has been generated for the main group elements from Na to Bi using the procedure originally developed by Kahn. The ECP’s are derived from all‐electron numerical Hartree–Fock atomic wave functions and fit to analytical representations for use in molecular calculations.Effective Core Potential (ECP) Basis Sets . Svante Hedström, Batista Lab, Yale University . Tips and suggestions . If only one basis set (with ECP) is used for all atoms, it can be …For the transition metals atoms (Au), we used the [SD (60, MDF)] scheme to describe the effective core potential (ECP) 50,51. Accordingly, the normal optimization convergence criteria have been ...The application of the frozen-core approximation (FCA) and effective core potentials (ECPs) within symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) has been investigated and implemented. Unlike in the case of conventional electronic-structure theories, the development of a frozen-core version of SAPT is not straightforward..