I will review recent progress in our understanding of the nuclear force. In the course of the 1990’s, so-called high-precision, charge-dependent nucleon-nucleon potentials have been constructed which are, essentially, phenomenological models. These potentials are now commonly used as input for exact few-body calculations and microscopic nuclear many-body theory. I will critically analyses those...

published in Advance ACS Absrracrs, March 15, 1994. 0022-3654/94/2098-4180%04.S0/0 associated with the use of the resulting potential, since it is well known that the evaluation of many-body functions is computationally demanding.

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