Spinless fermions and charged stripes at the strong-coupling limit

Abstract

Spinless fermions on a lattice with nearest-neighbor repulsion serve as a toy version Hubbard model, and have a symmetry-broken even/odd superlattice at half-filling. At infinite repulsion, doped holes form charged stripes which are antiphase walls (as noted by Mila in 1994). Exact-diagonalization data for systems up to 36 sites around 1/4 filling, and also for one or two holes added to a stripe of length up to 12, indicate stability of the stripe-array state against phase separation. In the {\it boson} version of the model, the same behavior can be stabilized by addition of a four-fermi term.