CCL:G: What is the difference between ab inito and DFT?

[Marcel Swart <m.swart:+:few.vu.nl>]

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 Hello Fujiyama,
 see any textbook dealing with these things, like (among many others):
 Jensen - Introduction to computational chemistry
The basic consensus nowadays is, I think, that people refer to
 "wavefunction based" methods
 (RHF, MP2, CCSD(T), QCISD(T), CASSCF, CASPT2, MR-CI) as "ab
 initio", as
 opposed to
 Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods. B3LYP you mention belongs to
 the DFT methods.
 On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:52 AM, fuji yama yamafuji6__yahoo.com wrote:
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>  Hello All,
> Can you please tell me the difference between ab initio and DFT
>  methods? It seems for both the calculations people are using the same
>  basis set and same method (like B3Lyp). Can you please tell me how to
>  do ab initio calculation in g03? Please give me model inputfile, if
>  possible. Thank you very much.
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