Idealised models

Lattice models

• Barker-Fock model
• Blume-Emery-Griffiths model (including the Blume-Capel model)
• Bond fluctuation model
• Hard hexagons
• Lattice gas
• Lattice hard spheres
• Lebwohl-Lasher model
• Potts model
  • Ashkin-Teller model
  • Kac model
• Roberts and Debenedetti model
• RP(n-1) model
• N-vector model:
  • Ising Models (n=1)
  • XY model (n=2)
  • Heisenberg model (n=3)

'Hard' models

• Branched hard sphere chains
• Flexible hard sphere chains (also known as the pearl-necklace model)
• Fused hard sphere chains
• Hard core Yukawa
• Hard disks
• Hard dumbbell model
• Hard ellipsoids
• 1-dimensional hard rods
• 3-dimensional hard rods
• Hard sphere
  • Hard hyperspheres
  • Dipolar hard spheres
• Hard spherocylinders
  • Charged hard spherocylinders
• Sutherland potential
• Tangent linear hard sphere chains
• Widom-Rowlinson model

Piecewise continuous models

• Buldyrev and Stanley model
• Hemmer and Stell model
• Ramp model
• Square well model
• Soft-core square well model
• Square shoulder model
• Square shoulder + square well
• Triangular well model

'Soft' models

• Born-Huggins-Meyer potential
• Buckingham potential
• Continuous shouldered well model
• Flexible molecules (intramolecular interactions)
• Gaussian overlap model
• Gay-Berne model
• Intermolecular Interactions
• Kihara potential
• Lennard-Jones model
  • Lennard-Jones disks
  • Lennard-Jones rods
  • Lennard-Jones sticks
  • 9-3 Lennard-Jones potential
  • 10-4-3 Lennard-Jones potential
  • Stockmayer potential
• Mie potential
• Morse potential
• United-atom model
• Single site anisotropic soft-core potential

Charged or polar models

• Restricted primitive model
• Charged hard dumbbells
• Charged hard spherocylinders
• Shell model
• Dipolar hard spheres
• Stockmayer potential

Three-body potentials

• Many-body interactions - a general discussion page.
• Axilrod-Teller interaction

Metals

• Embedded atom model
• Finnis-Sinclair
• Gupta potential
• Sutton-Chen