  We report on a study of neutron-rich even-mass Te isotopes in terms of the
shell model employing a realistic effective interaction derived from the
CD-Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential. The strong short-range repulsion of the
latter is renormalized by constructing a smooth low-momentum potential,
V-low-k, that is used directly as input for the calculation of the effective
interaction. In this paper, after a brief review of the theoretical framework,
we present our results. Comparison shows that they are in very good agreement
with the available experimental data.
