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Re^4: Relativistic and non-relativistic basis sets.

Dear Thomas.

Thanks for you feedback. My goal is to do MCSCF/XMCQDPT and spin-orbit coupling. I was planing to use contracted ANO-RCC for Cu and smaller basis set for another atoms. Is it ok if i us cc-pVTZ for Cu and cc-pVDZ for all other atoms? A difference between these basis sets is not so large, i believe.

Pavel.

On Wed Feb 5 '14 10:57pm, Thomas Pijper wrote
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>Dear Pavlo,

>ANO-RCC is much, much larger than cc-pVDZ, so I would say that a mixed ANO-RCC / cc-pVDZ set is very unbalanced. I personally would distrust any results obtained this way.

>Though I do not know what you want to calculate, I would generally recommend to use a pseudopotential if you would like to consider relativistic effects somewhat. The cc-pVXZ-PP sets by Peterson are available for copper and can be used in combination with the normal cc-pVXZ sets for lighter elements.
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>Kind regards,
>Thom
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>On Wed Feb 5 '14 8:46pm, Pavlo Solntsev wrote
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>>Dear Thomas.

>>Basically, i have two basis sets: GC ANO-RCC and cc-pVDZ. The heaviest element is copper. I don't expect high relativistic effects from copper. I would like to use the contracted ANO-RCC for Cu and the contracted cc-pVDZ for all other elements. I was wondering about possibility to mix these basis sets. This is not a technical issue, but more methodological.
>>Thanks for any comments.

>>Pavel.
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>>On Wed Feb 5 '14 1:50pm, Thomas Pijper wrote
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>>>Dear Pavlo,

>>>Technically, there is no problem in combining two basis sets in one input file. However, I do not see why you would use a relativistic basis set in Firefly as it is not capable of relativistic calculations such as Douglas–Kroll–Hess or Dyall's Modified Dirac. Also, I would be cautious when mixing basis sets of considerably different qualities (such as using an unpolarized DZ set with a heavily polarized TZ set).

>>>Could you perhaps explain your question a bit more?
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>>>Kind regards,
>>>Thom
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>>>On Mon Feb 3 '14 9:01pm, Pavlo Solntsev wrote
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>>>>Dear Alex.

>>>>I was asked about possibility to use relativistic and non-relativistic basis sets in FF. I mean, is it ok if we combine two different basis sets in one input file?

>>>>Thanks.
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Thu Feb 6 '14 6:58pm

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