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Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles.

From: "lan haiping" <lanhaiping@gmail.com>
To: forum@abinit.org
Subject: Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:20:24 +0800
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Hi,

Too subtle to identify, therefore, no sense can be made !

Merry Xmas & Happy New year !
Regards,

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas@yahoo.com.cn> wrote:

Hi all,

Some times we say ab initio, sometimes first principles. Actually,
I find the difference of these two phrases are often the same meanings in many papers. But the fact may be not the case, who can give some hints on the differences between ab initio and first principles?

Regards,
--
Hongsheng Zhao <zhaohscas@yahoo.com.cn>
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493
2008-12-21

--
Hai-Ping Lan
Department of Electronics ,
Peking University , Bejing, 100871
lanhaiping@gmail.com, hplan@pku.edu.cn

[abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., Hongsheng Zhao, 12/21/2008
- Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., Adam Sorini, 12/21/2008
- Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., asa aravindh, 12/22/2008
  - {Spam?} Re[2]: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., Hongsheng Zhao, 12/22/2008
- Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., lan haiping, 12/22/2008
- Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., Anglade Pierre-Matthieu, 12/22/2008
- Re: [abinit-forum] ab initio vs. first principles., Josef Zwanziger, 12/22/2008