Idealised models

Lattice models

• Hard hexagons
• Heisenberg model
• Ising Models
• Lattice gas
• Potts model
• Bond fluctuation model

'Hard' models

• Hard rods
• Hard disks
• Hard sphere
• Widom-Rowlinson model
• Two-dimensional hard dumbbells
• Three-dimensional hard dumbbells
• Tangent linear hard sphere chains
• Flexible hard sphere chains (aka. pearl-necklace model)
• Branched hard sphere chains
• Fused hard sphere chains
• Hard ellipsoids
• Hard spherocylinders
• Hard core Yukawa

Piecewise continuous models

• Square well model
• Square shoulder model
• Square shoulder + square well
• Ramp model

'Soft' models

• Gaussian overlap model
• Gay-Berne model
• Kihara potential
• Lennard-Jones model
• 9-3 Lennard-Jones potential
• United-atom model
• Intermolecular Interactions
• Flexible molecules (intramolecular interactions)
• Confined systems

'Charged' models

• Restricted primitive model
• Charged hard dumbbells
• Shell model
  • Relaxed shell model
  • Dynamical shell model (aka. adiabatic shell model)

Three-body potentials

• Silicon

Metals

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