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 ...The Los Alamos double-zeta-type LANL2DZ and effective core potential (ECP) basis sets were used for the Cu and Br atoms, while the 6-311 + G(d, p) split valence basis set was used for the other ...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 ...Effective Core Potential methods are classified in two families, according to their basic grounds. On the one hand, the Pseudopotential methods (PP) rely on an orbital transformation called the pseudoorbital transformation and they are ultimately related to the Phillips-Kleinman equation [2]. On the other hand, the Model Potential methods (MP ...Good agreement between the calculated and experimental geometries was obtained. Although the size of the effective core potential (ECF) basis sets is about half or less than those of the non-ECP basis sets, 6-31G(p) and 6-311G(d,p), the obtained average errors and scale factors were comparable to those obtained using the non-ECP 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 …The effective core potential (ECP) was applied to the 60electron cores of Hg and Pb and the 28-electron core of Cd to take the relativistic contraction of the cores into account [35, 36]. The M06 ...Effective core potential basis sets. Hans Hellmann introduced pseudopotential or effective core potential in 1934, which is an approximation used to treat complex systems with simple description [76]. Pseudopotential explicitly treats only the chemically active valence electrons while the core electrons are ‘frozen’, being …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.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.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 ...The computational investigations of lanthanide complexes using relativistic effective core potential (ECP) [60][61][62] in conjugation with density functional theory (DFT) provide accurate results ...Comments on "Effective Core Potentials" [M.Dolg, Modern Methods and Algorithms of Quantum Chemistry (Ed. by J.Grotendorst, John von Neumann Institute for Computing, J\"ulich, NIC Series, Vol.1 ...DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(86)80123-9 Corpus ID: 97620797; Accurate effective core potential for germanium. Application to the singlet-triplet splitting in GeH2 @inproceedings{Pettersson1986AccurateEC, title={Accurate effective core potential for germanium.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 ...Jun 16, 2016 · 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. Effective core potentials (ECPs) and closely related pseudopotentials provide a well-known technique for simplifying electronic structure calculations to valence-only degrees of freedom. The ECP Hamiltonians replace the core states by potentials with projectors that mimic the action of the core on the valence electrons with different symmetries.A method is developed for obtaining fully relativistic effective core potentials from numerical Dirac-Fock self-consistent-field calculations. Analytical forms for the effective core potentials are derived for Ca and T1, and the results of valence-only Dirac-Fock calculations are presented. Download to read the full chapter text.For transition metals, we used the small-core, quasi-relativistic Stuttgart/Dresden effective core potential with the associated triple-ζ valence basis set (standard SDD keywords in Gaussian09). (40) All complexes were considered in the singlet electronic state with the exception of the Mn-based systems, for which a triplet state was considered.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. A 46-electron core was chosen to provide the best compromise between computational ...Fermionic Neural Network with Effective Core Potential. Deep learning techniques have opened a new venue for electronic structure theory in recent years. In contrast to traditional methods, deep neural networks provide much more expressive and flexible wave function ansatz, resulting in better accuracy and time scaling behavior.An effective core potential system has been developed for heavy atoms in which relativistic effects are included in the effective potentials (EP). The EP's are based on numerical Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations for atoms and on the Phillips-Kleinman transformation with other aspects similar to the treatments of Goddard and Melius and ...Sep 14, 2018 · 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. 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 …The Application of Effective Core Potentials in Heavy Atom Molecules: A Study of Small Gold Clusters and Molecules as a Function of Theoretical Method. Joseph J. BelBruno. …The pseudopotential must be used with a compatible basis set. Gaussian supports a new effective core potential (ECP) input format (similar to that used by ExtraBasis) which is described in the Format tab. Without any options, this keyword defaults to Pseudo=Read. However, the Cards option is by far its most-used mode. 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 The pseudopotential must be used with a compatible basis set. Gaussian supports a new effective core potential (ECP) input format (similar to that used by ExtraBasis) which is described in the Format tab. Without any options, this keyword defaults to Pseudo=Read. However, the Cards option is by far its most-used mode.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 ...Besides, for these heavier elements the relativistic effects become important. One way to solve both problems simultaneously is to fit an effective core potential (ECP) to describe the core electrons using relativistic calculations, reducing the computational problem by treating only the valence electrons explicitly [22, 25, 27]. Most ECP ...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 ...9 Effective Core Potentials. 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 ECP Fitting; 9.3 Built-In ECPs. 9.3.0.1 Combining ECPs; 9.3.0.2 Examples; 9.4 User-Defined ECPs; 9.5 ECPs and Electron Correlation; 9.6 Forces and Vibrational Frequencies with ECPs; 9.7 A Brief Guide to Q-Chem ’s Built-In ECPs; 10 Exploring Potential Energy Surfaces: Critical Points and ...An effective core potential system has been developed for heavy atoms in which relativistic effects are included in the effective potentials (EP). The EP's are based on numerical Dirac--Hartree--Fock calculations for atoms and on the Phillips--Kleinman transformation with other aspects similar to the treatments of Goddard and Melius and Kahn ...The computational investigations of lanthanide complexes using relativistic effective core potential (ECP) [60][61][62] in conjugation with density functional theory (DFT) provide accurate results ...Effective core potential is a type of numerical model of chemical elements so that their inner shell electrons not participate in numerical simulation. Instead, those electrons are combined with the atom core and treated as a collective potential to the remaining valence electrons. When constructedAn ab initio molecular orbital study using the effective core potentials (ECP) is performed to determine the anion and cation effects on the adsorption of C 2 H 4 and C 3 H 6 on CuX and AgX (X = F, Cl, Br, I). Compared with all-electron calculations, the ab initio ECPs require only a fraction of the computational resources with accuracy that …8 Basis Sets and Effective Core Potentials 8.10 Introduction to Effective Core Potentials (ECPs) 8.12 Built-In ECPs. 8.11 ECP Fitting. The ECP matrix elements are arguably the most difficult one-electron integrals in existence. Indeed, using current methods, the time taken to compute the ECP integrals can exceed the time taken to compute the ...Effective core potentials (ECPs) and closely related pseudopotentials provide a well-known technique for simplifying electronic structure calculations to valence-only degrees of freedom. The ECP Hamiltonians replace the core states by potentials with projectors that mimic the action of the core on the valence electrons with different …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.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 rapid development of deep learning techniques has driven the emergence of a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo method (referred to as FermiNet), which has manifested high accuracy and strong predictive power in the electronic structure calculations of atoms, molecules as well as some periodic systems. Recently, the implementation of the effective core potential (ECP) scheme in it ...The ground state geometries of small neutral Ag n (n=2-9) and cationic Ag n + (n=2-9) clusters have been determined in the framework of the Hartree-Fock and complete active space self‐consistent field (CASSCF) procedure employing a relativistic effective core potential (RECP) accounting for core-valence correlation effects (CVC). Similarities and differences between topologies 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 ...The rapid development of deep learning techniques has driven the emergence of a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo method (referred to as FermiNet), which has manifested high accuracy and strong predictive power in the electronic structure calculations of atoms, molecules as well as some periodic systems. Recently, the implementation of the effective core potential (ECP) scheme in it ...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, 有効内核ポテンシャル（英: effective core potential, ECP）とも呼ばれる。 こうした擬ポテンシャルは、内核電子が与える静電相互作用や交換相関相互作用とは全く無関係に、原子核から或る半径よりも外側では、波動関数が全電子計算の結果と一致することだけ ... Effective core polarization potentials (CPPs) to account for the effect of core–valence correlation have been adjusted for the same elements, and two different forms of the …Numerically cheap single-core subsamplings have been used to build improved estimators for molecular properties in the variational Monte Carlo framework. The resulting estimators depend only on the valence electron positions and can be thought of as an exact effective core potential for the total energy. WeWe introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with 4d, 5d, 6s, and 6p valence spaces. These ccECPs are given as a sum of spin-orbit averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective spin-orbit (SO) terms.Besides, for these heavier elements the relativistic effects become important. One way to solve both problems simultaneously is to fit an effective core potential (ECP) to describe the core electrons using relativistic calculations, reducing the computational problem by treating only the valence electrons explicitly [22, 25, 27]. Most ECP ...The basic construction of ECPs involves reproducing valence one-particle eigenvalues and closely related one-particle orbital norm conservation, i.e., the amount of valence charge outside an appropriate effective ion radius. 11 Since the number of core states and their spatial properties vary, each angular momentum symmetry channel …The present section offers a brief introduction to the pseudopotential approach in general, followed by a review of the fundamentals of the effective core potentials and model core potentials, and starts from where the most recent review ended [].8.1.1 Separability of the Valence and Core Spaces. Mendeleev’s Periodic Table of the …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 ...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. 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 ... 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.We propose large-core correlation-consistent pseudopotential basis sets for the heavy p-block elements Ga-Kr and In-Xe. The basis sets are of cc-pVTZ and cc-pVQZ quality, and have been optimized ...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 …The relevant key words are, for example, B3LYP/Gen pseudo=cards. Also, the effective core potential and the related basis set need to be placed explicitly after the coordinates of atoms in the ...Feb 4, 2012 · Sadlej’s electric polarization method of Gaussian basis functions was applied to the double-zeta effective core potential basis sets of Stevens, Basch, Krauss, Jasien and Cundari to generate a new augmented polarized valence double-zeta set, named as pSBKJC, which is appropriate for the calculation of dynamic polarizabilities and Raman intensities. The pSBKJC basis set was developed for the ... 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 …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 …For geometry optimizations, the SDD basis set with effective core potential (ECP) was chosen to describe gold and iodine and 6-31G(d) basis set was employed for all other atoms. 17 This basis set combination will be referred to as BS1. Frequency calculations were carried out at the same level of theory as those for structural optimization. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Chapter 9. Effective Core Potentials. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 ECP Fitting. 9.3 Built-In ECPs. 9.4 User-Defined ECPs. 9.5 ECPs and Electron Correlation. 9.6 Forces and Vibrational Frequencies with ECPs. 9.7 A Brief Guide to Q-Chem’s Built-In ECPs.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.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.Pseudopotentials ≡Effective Core Potential (ECP) Si 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p2 Cu 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d104s The inner electrons are not evolved in chemistry, and they make the calculations expensive, because their presence requires large basis sets. all-el. pseudo C 3s2p1d (14) 2s2p1d Si 4s3p1d (18) 2s2p1d Cu 5s4p3d1f (39) 3s3p2d large ...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.The basic construction of ECPs involves reproducing valence one-particle eigenvalues and closely related one-particle orbital norm conservation, i.e., the amount of valence charge outside an appropriate effective ion radius. 11 Since the number of core states and their spatial properties vary, each angular momentum symmetry channel … 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. 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 introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with $4d$, $5d$, $6s$ and $6p$ valence spaces. These ccECPs are given as a sum of spin-orbit averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective spin-orbit (SO) terms. The construction …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].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 theGood agreement between the calculated and experimental geometries was obtained. Although the size of the effective core potential (ECF) basis sets is about half or less than those of the non-ECP basis sets, 6-31G(p) and 6-311G(d,p), the obtained average errors and scale factors were comparable to those obtained using the non-ECP basis sets.Oct 15, 2018 · 2018-10-15 Update 2nd row He-core ccECPs to be consistent with JCP (2018) potentials. 2018-05-21 Added ccECPs for 2nd and 3rd row from Abdulgani Annaberdiyev (2018) and Chandler Bennett (2018). 2018-04-12 Added Trail-Needs CEPP (2015) and eCEPP (2017) potentials, basis sets, and orbitals. 2018-02-22 Add RRKJ and TM potentials for 3d elements. 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 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.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 …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 …Effective core potential basis sets. Hans Hellmann introduced pseudopotential or effective core potential in 1934, which is an approximation used to treat complex systems with simple description [76]. Pseudopotential explicitly treats only the chemically active valence electrons while the core electrons are 'frozen', being considered ...The rapid development of deep learning techniques has driven the emergence of a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo method (referred to as FermiNet), which has manifested high accuracy and strong predictive power in the electronic structure calculations of atoms, molecules as well as some periodic systems. Recently, the implementation of the effective core potential (ECP) scheme in it ...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.
One model used the Hay-Wadt (HW) effective core potential (ECP) and a double-ζ valence basis set on Cs; the other used the Ross ECP with two polarization functions on Cs. In both models, the standard 6-31+G** basis was used for the other atoms. At the Hartree-Fock (HF) level, the Ross ECP was found to give geometries and energies in good .... Cosprof
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.Results of extensive all-electron and effective core potential (ECP) ab initio calculations on the ground state properties of ArH +, KrH + and XeH + are reported. It is demonstrated that, for the equilibrium distance and harmonic frequency, the ECPs combined with a hydrogen basis set of sufficient size and flexibility lead to an accuracy quite similar to the most sophisticated all-electron ...In the effective core potential (ECP) approximation, 24–27 a fraction of chemically inert core electrons is replaced by the pseudopotential constructed to reproduce atomic Hartree-Fock or Dirac-Hartree-Fock results. This approach has enabled quantum chemical calculations to be carried out on molecules containing heavy atoms with highly …This Letter proposes an accurate scheme using frozen core orbitals, called the frozen core potential (FCP) method, to theoretically connect model potential calculations to all-electron (AE) ones. The present scheme is based on the Huzinaga-Cantu equation combined with spin-free relativistic Douglas-Kroll-Hess Hamiltonians.We introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with $4d$, $5d$, $6s$ and $6p$ valence spaces. These ccECPs are given as a sum of spin-orbit averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective spin-orbit (SO) terms. The construction involves several steps with increasing refinements from more simple to ...Jun 16, 2016 · 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. Moreover, the DMC method can be further integrated with other powerful molecular neural networks 22,25, periodic neural network for solids 48, neural networks with effective core potential 49 ...DOE PAGES ® Journal Article: Efficient implementation of effective core potential integrals and gradients on graphical processing units ® Journal Article: Efficient implementation of effective core potential integrals and gradients on graphical processing unitsWe introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with 4d, 5d, 6s, and 6p valence spaces. These ccECPs are given as a sum of spin-orbit averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective spin-orbit (SO) terms.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.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 …We introduce new correlation consistent effective core potentials (ccECPs) for the elements I, Te, Bi, Ag, Au, Pd, Ir, Mo, and W with 4d, 5d, 6s, and 6p valence spaces. These ccECPs are given as a sum of spin-orbit averaged relativistic effective potential (AREP) and effective spin-orbit (SO) terms.The ground state geometries of small neutral Ag n (n=2-9) and cationic Ag n + (n=2-9) clusters have been determined in the framework of the Hartree-Fock and complete active space self‐consistent field (CASSCF) procedure employing a relativistic effective core potential (RECP) accounting for core-valence correlation effects (CVC). Similarities and differences between topologies of ...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. A 46‐electron core was chosen to provide the best compromise between computational …We propose large-core correlation-consistent pseudopotential basis sets for the heavy p-block elements Ga-Kr and In-Xe. The basis sets are of cc-pVTZ and cc-pVQZ quality, and have been optimized ....