Idealised models
Lattice models
- Barker-Fock model
- Blume-Emery-Griffiths model (including the Blume-Capel model)
- Bond fluctuation model
- Hard hexagons
- Kagomé-lattice eight-vertex model
- Lattice gas
- Lattice hard spheres
- Lebwohl-Lasher model
- Potts model
- Roberts and Debenedetti model
- RP(n-1) model
- N-vector model:
- Ising Models (n=1)
- XY model (n=2)
- Heisenberg model (n=3)
Recommended reading
- Rodney J. Baxter "Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics", Academic Press (1982) ISBN 0120831821 (freely available pdf of book)
'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 dumbbell model
- Hard ellipsoids
- 1-dimensional hard rods
- 3-dimensional hard rods
- Hard sphere
- 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
- Mie potential
- Morse potential
- United-atom model
- Single site anisotropic soft-core potential
Charged or polar models
- Charged hard dumbbells
- Charged hard spherocylinders
- Dipolar hard spheres
- Keesom potential
- Restricted primitive model
- Shell model
- Stockmayer potential
Three-body potentials
- Many-body interactions - a general discussion page.
- Axilrod-Teller interaction