Abstract
It is shown that the range of realistic potentials associated with neutral defects in semiconductors is insufficient to give rise to an effective mass-like excited state normally expected for a number of shallow and deep substitutional donors. In particular, it is shown that the state of e symmetry associated with the self-consistent potential of a neutral oxygen impurity in the perfect lattice of GaP does not lie in the forbidden gap.

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