Strong particle-hole asymmetry of charge instabilities in doped Mott insulators

Abstract

We study possible charge instabilities in doped Mott insulators by employing the two-dimensional t-J model with a positive value of the next nearest-neighbor hopping integral t′ on a square lattice, which is applicable to electron-doped cuprates. Although the d-wave charge density wave (flux phase) and d-wave Pomeranchuk instability (nematic order) are dominant instabilities for a negative t′ that corresponds to hole-doped cuprates, we find that those instabilities are strongly suppressed and become relevant only rather close to half filling. Instead, various types of bond orders with modulation vectors close to (π, π)are dominant in a moderate doping region. Phase separation is also enhanced, but it can be suppressed substantially by the nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion without affecting the aforementioned charge instabilities.