Comparison of the state-of-the-art nucleon–nucleon potentials from phase shift to nuclear matter.

The nucleon–nucleon (NN) potential is the residual interaction of the strong interaction in the low-energy region and is also the fundamental input to the study of atomic nuclei. Based on the nonperturbative properties of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD), NN potential is not yet directly accessible from QCD theory. Therefore, various models of NN interactions have been constructed based on Yukawa's meson exchange pictures since the 1930s, including one-boson-exchange models, coordinate operator models and chiral effective field models. Analysis of extensive NN scattering data has shown that the two-body nuclear force exhibits a short-range repulsion and intermediate-range attraction, and decays rapidly with increasing distance. A series of charge-dependent high-precision NN interactions have been further developed in the past 30 years such as the AV18 potential, CD-Bonn potential, pvCD-Bonn potentials and the chiral effective nuclear potentials with momentum expansion up to the fifth order. In this work, the phase shifts at different channels, the cross-sections, the entanglement entropy in spin space, and the equations of state of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter from these high-precision NN interactions are calculated and systematically compared. It can be found that they have significant differences in the cases with high-angular momentum, high-laboratory energy and high-density regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]