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One primarily focuses on changes of the one-electron energies of the orbitals in response to the perturbations, as an indication of the trend in total energy. The successes of this approach are documented in a series of excellent textbooks and papers,25-30 which include references to the abundant literature on the subject. The Q M O approach has been mostly applied in the context of semiempirical calculations, although as a matter of fact many ab initio calculations, even those that use sophisticated techniques for the inclusion of correlation, very often cast their explanations somewhat illogically in simple MO language.

The KS orbitals even have advantages over the Hartree-Fock orbitals, as will be discussed below. When forming the one-determinantal wavefunction with Kohn-Sham orbitals instead of Hartree-Fock orbitals, and taking the expectation value of the Hamiltonian, one obtains = T, + V -I-Wcoul + W, The factors of lh in the electron-electron interaction terms, the Coulomb and exchange energies, Wcoul and W,, prevent double counting. h)jp(v, )Vcoul(rl)dr, are equal to the exact quantities, since the KS density p is equal to p a c t .

However, since the overlaps between diffuse valence orbitals and the very tight deep core orbitals are very small, the S2/(1 - S2) prefactor will be small, and the effect of the deep core will actually not be large. The opposing effects of diminishing overlap and increasing kinetic energy going from (sub)valence to (upper) core and deep core orbitals, leads to a maximum effect for upper core orbitals that still have sufficient size to overlap with valence orbitals, yet have already such a large kinetic energy that orthogonalizing the valence orbitals onto them gives rise to a large kinetic repulsion.

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