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Valence basis sets for lanthanide 4f-in-core pseudopotentials adapted for crystal orbital ab initio calculations

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Crystal orbital adapted Gaussian (4s4p3d), (5s5p4d) and (6s6p5d) valence primitive basis sets have been derived for calculating periodic bulk materials containing trivalent lanthanide ions modeled with relativistic energy-consistent 4f-in-core lanthanide pseudopotentials of the Stuttgart-Koeln variety. The calibration calculations of crystalline A-type Pm2O3 using different segmented contraction schemes (4s4p3d)/[2s2p2d], (4s4p3d)/[3s3p2d], (5s5p4d)/[2s2p2d], (5s5p4d)/[3s3p3d], (5s5p4d)/[4s4p3d], (6s6p5d)/[2s2p2d], (6s6p5d)/[3s3p3d] and (6s6p5d)/[4s4p4d] are discussed at both Hartree–Fock (HF) and density functional theory (DFT) levels for the investigation of basis set size effects. Applications to the geometry optimization of A-type Ln2O3 (Ln = La-Pm) show a satisfactory agreement with experimental data using the lanthanide valence basis sets (6s6p5d)/[4s4p4d] and the standard set 6-311G* for oxygen. The corresponding augmented sets (8s7p6d)/[6s5p5d] with additional diffuse functions for describing neutral lanthanide atoms were applied to calculate atomic energies of free lanthanide atoms for the evaluation of cohesive energies for A-Ln2O3 within both conventional Kohn-Sham DFT and the a posteriori-HF correlation DFT schemes.

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Yang, J., Dolg, M. Valence basis sets for lanthanide 4f-in-core pseudopotentials adapted for crystal orbital ab initio calculations. Theor Chem Acc 113, 212–224 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00214-005-0629-0

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