We perform a comprehensive Weinberg eigenvalue analysis of a representative set of modern nucleon-nucleon interactions derived within chiral effective field theory. Our set contains local, semilocal, and nonlocal potentials, developed by Gezerlis et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 032501 (2013)], Epelbaum et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 122301 (2015)] and Entem et al. [Phys. Rev. C 96, 024004 (2017)] as well as Carlsson et al. [Phys. Rev. X 6, 011019 (2016)], respectively. The attractive eigenvalues show a very similar behavior for all investigated interactions, whereas the magnitudes of the repulsive eigenvalues sensitively depend on the details of the regularization scheme of the short- and long-range parts of the interactions. We demonstrate that a direct comparison of numerical cutoff values of different interactions is in general misleading due to the different analytic form of regulators; for example, a cutoff value of $R=0.8$ fm for the semilocal interactions corresponds to about $R=1.2$ fm for the local interactions. Our detailed comparison of Weinberg eigenvalues provides various insights into idiosyncrasies of chiral potentials for different orders and partial waves. This shows that Weinberg eigenvalues could be used as a helpful monitoring scheme when constructing new interactions.

• Received 1 August 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.054002