ECP's and PP's

From: <schrecke : at : zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary
Subject: ECP's and PP's
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:57:43 -0600 (MDT)

 Hi everybody,
 I have just read the interesting summary by Dale Braden in the CCL on ECP's.
 One of the questions he raised in his original posting was whether there is
 a difference between "effective core potentials" and
 "pseudopotentials". To
 my limited knowledge, there is none. But maybe one of the experts could
 comment on this question? -- I couldn't find a definite answer in the mentioned
 summary. So my question is, what -- if any -- is the difference between PP's
 and ECP's?  Just curious ...
 Thanx, Georg
 P.S. I will summarize to the list if there are any answers.
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