Comments on "Spin-dependent tunneling through a symmetric semiconductor barrier: The Dresselhaus effect"

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In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. B 72, 153314 (2005)], the k³-Dresselhaus term in the contacts and the full form of the current operator are considered for spin-dependent tunneling through a symmetric barrier. The authors found that the full form of the current operator has a much larger influence on the spin polarization than it was initially thought. In this Comment we will show that their treatment of the other problem, the k³-Dresselhaus term in the contacts, is incorrect. Their proposed solution in the contacts simply does not obey the Schrödinger equation. In this context we also comment on the definition and the suitability of spin polarization in contacts with spin-orbit coupling.