Observation of Thermoelectric Voltages from the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas of a HgTe Quantum Well Due to Resonant THz Laser Heating

HgTe quantum wells (QWs) have shown a number of interesting phenomena, recently the first two-dimensional topological insulating state. We have studied thermoelectric photovoltages of two-dimensional electrons in a 6.1 nm wide HgTe QW induced by cyclotron resonance absorption (B = 2 to 5 T) of a THz laser beam. We have estimated thermopower coefficients by detailed analysis of the photovoltage signals developed across various contacts of a large Hall bar structure at a bath temperature of 1.6 K. The photovoltage signals are washed out at bath temperature of 18 K.