The Krein-Schrödinger Formalism of Bosonic BdG and Certain Classical Systems and Their Topological Classification

Abstract

To understand recent works on classical and quantum spin equations and their topological classification, we develop a unified mathematical framework for bosonic BdG systems and associated classical wave equations; it applies not just to equations that describe quantized spin excitations in magnonic crystals but more broadly to other systems that are described by a BdG hamiltonian. Because here the generator of dynamics, the analog of the hamiltonian, is para-, aka Krein-, hermitian but not hermitian, the theory of Krein spaces plays a crucial role. For systems which are thermodynamically stable, the classical equations can be expressed as a Schrödinger equation with a hermitian hamiltonian. We then proceed to apply the Cartan-Altland-Zirnbauer classification scheme: to properly understand what topological class these equations belong to, we need to conceptually distinguish between symmetries and constraints. Complex conjugation enters as a particle-hole constraint (as opposed to a symmetry), since classical waves are necessarily real-valued. Because of this distinction only commuting symmetries enter in the topological classification. Our arguments show that the equations for spin waves in magnonic crystals are a system of class A, the same topological class as quantum hamiltonians describing the Integer Quantum Hall Effect. Consequently, the magnonic edge modes first predicted by Shindou et al. are indeed analogs of the Quantum Hall Effect, and their net number is topologically protected.

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