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title: "List of quantum-mechanical potentials"
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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


== See also ==
List of quantum-mechanical systems with analytical solutions
List of integrable models