  An improved composite-boson theory of quantum Hall ferromagnets is formulated
both for the monolayer and bilayer systems. In this scheme the field operator
describes solely the physical degrees of freedom representing the deviation
from the ground state. Skyrmions are charged excitations confined to the lowest
Landau level. By evaluating the excitation energy of one skyrmion in the
interlayer-coherent phase it is shown that the bilayer QH state becomes stabler
as the interlayer density difference becomes larger.
