CCL: Inquire a cutoff value for degenerate states

 Sent to CCL by: "Abrash, Samuel" [sabrash,+,richmond.edu]
 I don't know the theoretical convention, but from the point of view of a
 spectroscopist (my original training), .01 eV is 81 cm-1, and while states
 separated by 81 cm-1 will begin to exhibit Fermi resonance, they would not be
 considered degenerate.  However, the convention for computational chemistry may
 be based on other arguments.
 Samuel A. Abrash
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 Subject: CCL: Inquire a cutoff value for degenerate states
 Sent to CCL by: "Youzhao  Lan" [lyzhao,+,aliyun.com] Dear all,
   I want to set a small cutoff value for deciding whether two states are
 degenerate.
 Is there a generally acceptted value in a.u. or eV unit for this cutoff?
 e.g., 0.001 a.u. or 0.01 eV?
 Any help will be appreciated.
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