Pfaffian State Generation by Strong 3-Body Dissipation

We propose a scheme for preparing and stabilizing the Pfaffian state with high fidelity in rapidly rotating 2D traps containing a small number of bosons. The goal is achieved by strongly increasing 3-body loss processes, which suppress superpositions of three particles while permitting pairing. This filtering mechanism gives rise to reasonably small losses if the system is initialized with the right angular momentum. We discuss some methods for tuning 3-body interactions independently of 2-body collisions.