Example: Total Energy calculation: H2O¶
If the TOTALENERGY is included the total energy will be calculated.
This example performs single point runs for H2 O with PBE/DZP with frozen cores and all-electron and B3LYP/DZP with all-electron and HARTREEFOCK/DZP with all-electron The tests run in C(2v) symmetry. Integration quality is good which should give total energies accurate at least up to 10-4 atomic units. The key EXACTDENSITY is used for higher accuracy of the results.
First example:
$ADFBIN/adf <<eor
Title H2O PBE/DZP (frozen core) single point calculation
ATOMS
O 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
H 0.00000 -0.68944 -0.57851
H 0.00000 0.68944 -0.57851
END
BASIS
Type DZP
Core Small
END
XC
GGA PBE
END
ZlmFit
quality good
END
BeckeGrid
quality good
END
EXACTDENSITY
TOTALENERGY
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Note that only energy difference comparisons are meaningful. These are the only energies that play a role in chemistry of course, and for this one does not need total energies.