-------------------------------------------------------------------- COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS School of Computational Sciences (CSI 898-Sec 001) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ab Initio Calculations on Systems Containing Very Heavy Elements: The Relativistic Pseudopotentional Maria M. Marino Department of Chemistry, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152 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, Ermler, Christiansen and Pitzer. 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 interactions are incorporated into the RPP by means of variable coefficients that are defined in the context of the final molecular wave function. This form permits polarization of the outer core shells analogous to that occurring in all-electron molecular Hartree-Fock calculations while retaining these shells as part of the atomic pseudopotentional. Use of the RPP in post-Hartree-Fock molecular calculations permits the incorporation of core/valence correlation effects. Although the RPP can be used in calculations containing any element, it is especially useful when very heavy elements are involved, and its use in such calculations can mean the difference between computational tractability and intractability. Monday , September 27, 2004 4:30 pm Room 206, Science & Tech. I, Fairfax Campus Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Find the schedule at http://www.scs.gmu.edu/lcdm/seminar/schedule.html --------------------------------------------------------------------