[Wien] Frozen cores

georg at chem.au.dk georg at chem.au.dk
Mon Dec 13 11:06:21 CET 2004


One very easy way would be to do an
x lcore  (-up/-dn)
before the scf run to get the clmcor and scfc files
then just comment out the total_exec lcore statements in the run script

 Best wishes Georg


Quoting "L. D. Marks" <L-marks at northwestern.edu>:

> I'd like to freeze the core electrons, for instance set them at the CLM's
> of a pure bulk material then do a surface calculation so I can estimate
> the magnitude of core polarization contributions to the energies and
> mimic what a pseudopotential calculation would give for comparison. I can
> think of a way via hacking the case.clmcor and case.scfc to approximate
> this, but it won't get the correct energies of the cores in the valence
> electron potential field. Anyone have a better suggestion?
> 
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