Scarola V W, Jain J K, Rezayi E H
Department of Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 May 27;88(21):216804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.216804. Epub 2002 May 14.
We report on our theoretical investigations that point to the possibility of a fractional quantum Hall effect with partial spin polarization at nu = 3/8. The physics of the incompressible state proposed here involves p-wave pairing of composite fermions in the spin reversed sector. The temperature and magnetic field regimes for the realization of this state are estimated.