%0 Journal Article %T Separation of spin and charge in paired spin-singlet quantum Hall states %A E. Ardonne %A F. J. M. van Lankvelt %A A. W. W. Ludwig %A K. Schoutens %J Physics %D 2001 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevB.65.041305 %X We propose a series of paired spin-singlet quantum Hall states, which exhibit a separation of spin and charge degrees of freedom. The fundamental excitations over these states, which have filling fraction \nu=2/(2m+1) with m an odd integer, are spinons (spin-1/2 and charge zero) or fractional holons (charge +/- 1/(2m+1) and spin zero). The braid statistics of these excitations are non-abelian. The mechanism for the separation of spin and charge in these states is topological: spin and charge excitations are liberated by binding to a vortex in a p-wave pairing condensate. We briefly discuss related, abelian spin-singlet states and possible transitions. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102072v2