List of quantum-mechanical potentials

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

Wells[]

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

Interatomic potentials[]

• Interatomic 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/Long-range potential ()
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Quantum Field theory[]

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

Miscellaneous[]

• Quantum potential
• Pseudopotential

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See also[]

• List of quantum-mechanical systems with analytical solutions
• List of integrable models