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Re: Peroidic Table (was exclusion principle which was electrons)



On 11/15/2003 07:35 AM, Craig Lucanus wrote:
>
> I agree, it's physics, not occult, but still I insist that:
>
> Nobody has determined the physics, ab initio at least, why this
> (non-sequential filling of shells by the aufbau scheme) should occur,
>
> Semi-empirically yes (and always looking in the rear view mirror,
> accounting for observed facts), but ab initio, no.

So all these guys who write papers that talk about "ab initio"
calculations are fibbing?
e.g. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/pt/allan/Research/poster/poster.html
http://content.aip.org/JCPSA6/v91/i11/7011_1.html
http://content.aip.org/JCPSA6/v111/i23/10436_1.html
etc.

I found those and 3000 others via
http://www.google.com/search?q=hartree-fock+ab-initio+transition-metal