The electronic states of two oppositely doped Mott insulators bilayers

¹ Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley - CA 94720-7300, USA
² Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
³ Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University - Suwon 440-746, Korea
⁴ CSCMR, Seoul National University - Seoul 151-747, Korea

Received: 29 August 2006
Accepted: 16 October 2006

Abstract

We study the effect of Coulomb interaction between two oppositely doped low-dimensional tJ model systems. We exactly show that, in the one-dimensional case, an arbitrarily weak interaction leads to the formation of charge neutral electron-hole pairs. We then use two different mean-field theories to address the two-dimensional case, where inter-layer excitons also form and condense. We propose that this results in new features which have no analog in single layers, such as the emergence of an insulating spin liquid phase. Our simple bilayer model might have relevance to the physics of doped Mott insulator interfaces and of the new four layer compound.