It is shown that separable potentials including repulsion and tensor components with Yamaguchi form factors are unable to give a reasonable fit simultaneously to ${}_{}{}^3{}_{}{}^{}S_1^{}{}_{}{}^{}$ phase shifts and the following deuteron data: the binding energy, the quadrupole moment, and the electric form factor. It is also found that a good phase-shift fit cannot be obtained from potentials of this type if the $D$-state probability of the deuteron desired is higher than 4%.

• Received 27 April 1972

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.7.856