Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/science-related-lists

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

List of quantum-mechanical potentials

none


Summary

none

This is a list of potential energy functions that are frequently used in quantum mechanics and have any meaning.

One-dimensional potentials

  • Rectangular potential barrier
  • Delta potential (aka "contact potential")
  • Double delta potential
  • Step potential
  • Periodic potential
  • Barrier potential
  • Gaussian potential
  • Eckart potential

Wells

  • Quantum well
  • Potential well
  • Finite potential well
  • Infinite potential well
  • Double-well potential
  • Semicircular potential well
  • Circular potential well
  • Spherical potential well
  • Triangular potential well

Interatomic potentials

  • Interatomic potential
  • Bond order potential
  • EAM potential
  • Coulomb potential
  • Buckingham potential
  • Lennard-Jones potential
  • Morse potential
  • Morse/Long-range potential
  • Rosen–Morse potential
  • Trigonometric Rosen–Morse potential
  • Stockmayer potential
  • Pöschl–Teller potential
  • Axilrod–Teller potential
  • Mie potential

Oscillators

  • Harmonic potential (harmonic oscillator)
  • Morse potential (morse oscillator)
  • Morse/Long-range potential (Morse/Long-range oscillator)
  • Kratzer potential (Kratzer oscillator)

Quantum Field theory

  • Yukawa potential
  • Coleman–Weinberg potential
  • Uehling potential
  • Woods–Saxon potential
  • Cornell potential

Miscellaneous

  • Quantum potential
  • Pseudopotential
  • Superpotential
  • Komar superpotential
  • Kolos–Wolniewicz potential
Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about List of quantum-mechanical potentials — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report