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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For Si2 (Silicon diatomic)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311+G(3df,2p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.011529 -0.025899 -0.007470 -0.021301 -0.021685 -0.023813 -0.252851 -0.330696 -0.012082 -0.086026 -0.013100 -0.115619 -0.214240
MP3=FULL       -0.020867   -0.025965              
3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311+G(3df,2p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z