Insulating state and giant nonlocal response in an InAs/GaSb quantum well in the quantum Hall regime

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Jan 24;112(3):036802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.036802. Epub 2014 Jan 22.

Abstract

We present transport measurements performed in InAs/GaSb double quantum wells. At the electron-hole crossover tuned by a gate voltage, a strong increase in the longitudinal resistivity is observed with increasing perpendicular magnetic field. Concomitantly with a local resistance exceeding the resistance quantum by an order of magnitude, we find a pronounced nonlocal resistance signal of almost similar magnitude. The coexistence of these two effects is reconciled in a model of counterpropagating and dissipative quantum Hall edge channels providing backscattering, shorted by a residual bulk conductivity.