Krein-unitary Schrieffer-Wolff transformation and band touchings in bosonic Bogoliubov-de Gennes and other Krein-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Abstract

Krein-Hermitian Hamiltonians, i.e., Hamiltonians Hermitian with respect to an indefinite inner product, have emerged as an important class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in physics, encompassing both single-particle bosonic Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonians and so-called "$PT$-symmetric" non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. In particular, they have attracted considerable scrutiny owing to the recent surge in interest for boson topology. Motivated by these developments, we formulate a perturbative Krein-unitary Schrieffer-Wolff transformation for finite-size dynamically stable Krein-Hermitian Hamiltonians, yielding an effective Hamiltonian for a subspace of interest. The effective Hamiltonian is Krein Hermitian and, for sufficiently small perturbations, also dynamically stable. As an application, we use this transformation to justify codimension-based analyses of band touchings in bosonic BdG Hamiltonians, which complement topological characterization. We use this simple approach based on symmetry and codimension to revisit known topological magnon band touchings in several materials of recent interest.

arXiv commentUpdated to published version. Slight change to title. Some additional explanations and figures were added based on referee comments. 21 pages, 5 figures

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