Argon

Datasets:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

8

10

8 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-3119.584

2s

2

-296.942

2p

6

-229.889

3s

2

-24.282

1.60

3p

6

-10.269

1.60

s

0

2.930

1.60

p

0

16.942

1.60

d

0

0.000

1.60

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Ar dimer relative to completely converged numbers (plane-wave calculation at 1500 eV). Also shown are finite-difference and LCAO (dzp) calculations at gridspacings 0.143 Å, 0.167 Å and 0.200 Å.

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Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0015

0.18

0.0015

0.20

0.0011