From owner-nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Wed Apr 21 14:52:51 2004 Received: from odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3LLqpMW028636 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i3LLqpXL028635 for nwchem-users-outgoing; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:51:03 -0400 From: "Harrison, Robert J." Subject: RE: To: jmsulliv@chem.northwestern.edu, nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Message-id: <0F5B40EC0C6DDF4D8DFD0D77C553B9632170C6@EXCHANGET.ornl.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thread-Index: AcQn4DI5kYqFua3/TRKJxn6p6iAc4wACXAjH Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by odyssey.emsl.pnl.gov id i3LLqoMW028631 Sender: owner-nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Precedence: bulk I tossed this together, so don't take the numbers as gospel, but the below computes the corrected and uncorrected He-Ne interaction energy The main tricks are specifying the ghost centers with bq before the atomic symbol, and inserting the atom name in the basis set specification for the ghost center. The extra scf;vectors atomic;end is just to force the SCF initial guess to be used since the old vectors from another fragment won't be appropriate. Robert start # He--Ne MP2/aug-cc-pdz interaction energy at 3 angstrom # BSSE corrected interaction energy = +2.4 uH # uncorrected interaction energy = -65.4 uH basis spherical he library aug-cc-pvdz ne library aug-cc-pvdz bqhe library he aug-cc-pvdz bqne library ne aug-cc-pvdz end mp2 tight print low freeze core atomic end geometry he 0 0 0 ne 0 0 3 end scf; vectors atomic; end task mp2 energy # -131.585955808294 geometry he 0 0 0 bqne 0 0 3 end scf; vectors atomic; end task mp2 energy # -2.882686515578 geometry bqhe 0 0 0 ne 0 0 3 end scf; vectors atomic; end task mp2 energy # -128.703271690657 geometry ne 0 0 3 end scf; vectors atomic; end task mp2 energy # -128.703223239222 geometry he 0 0 0 end scf; vectors atomic; end task mp2 energy # -2.882667179282 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nwchem-developers@emsl.pnl.gov on behalf of Jay Sullivan Sent: Wed 4/21/2004 4:35 PM To: nwchem-users@emsl.pnl.gov Subject: Would anyone care to send me a simple (complete) example of how to make a BSSE correction with NWChem. I am having some difficulty figuring it out from the manual. Thanks, JMS