Idealised models
Lattice models
- Barker-Fock model
- Blume-Emery-Griffiths model (including the Blume-Capel model)
- Bond fluctuation model
- Hard hexagons
- Lattice gas
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
- Potts 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
- Hard rods
- Hard sphere
- Hard spherocylinders
- Sutherland potential
- Tangent linear hard sphere chains
- Widom-Rowlinson model
Piecewise continuous models
- Ramp model
- Square well model
- Square shoulder model
- Square shoulder + square well
- Triangular well model
'Soft' models
- Born-Huggins-Meyer potential
- Buckingham potential
- Confined systems
- Continuous shouldered well model
- Flexible molecules (intramolecular interactions)
- Gaussian overlap model
- Gay-Berne model
- Intermolecular Interactions
- Kihara potential
- Lennard-Jones model
- 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