Abstract
The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments [S. Roddaro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 156804 (2005)10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.156804], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of the integer edge into conducting and insulating stripes, the latter wide enough to allow for the stability of the edge structure. Interchannel impurity scattering and interchannel Coulomb interactions do not destabilize this picture.
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