Abstract
In a recent paper on acceptors in strained quantum wells [J. P. Loehr and J. Singh, Phys. Rev. B 41, 3695 (1990)], a splitting between the two spin states is found when the impurity is placed off center. We point out that this splitting is inconsistent with symmetry and show that the error arises from an incorrect treatment of the transformation properties of the valence envelope functions.
- Received 1 May 1990
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.42.7641
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