{ "id": "cond-mat/9806271", "version": "v1", "published": "1998-06-23T23:41:12.000Z", "updated": "1998-06-23T23:41:12.000Z", "title": "Possibility of p-wave pairing of composite fermions at $ν=1/2$", "authors": [ "K. Park", "V. Melik-Alaverdian", "N. E. Bonesteel", "J. K. Jain" ], "comment": "14 pages, 3 eps figures included", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R10167", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall" ], "abstract": "We find that for the pure Coulomb repulsion the composite Fermi sea at $\\nu=1/2$ is on the verge of an instability to triplet pairing of composite fermions. It is argued that a transition into the paired state, described by a Pfaffian wave function, may be induced if the short-range part of the interaction is softened by increasing the thickness of the two-dimensional electron system.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1998-06-23T23:41:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "composite fermions", "p-wave pairing", "possibility", "two-dimensional electron system", "pure coulomb repulsion" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 14, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }