Topological edge states for disordered bosonic systems

DOI10.1063/1.5002094zbMATH Open1390.82051arXiv1708.08798OpenAlexW2751429899WikidataQ62049546 ScholiaQ62049546MaRDI QIDQ4635267FDOQ4635267

Vittorio Peano, Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Publication date: 16 April 2018

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quadratic bosonic Hamiltonians over a one-particle Hilbert space can be described by a Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) Hamiltonian on a particle-hole Hilbert space. In general, the BdG Hamiltonian is not selfadjoint, but only $J$-selfadjoint on the particle-hole space viewed as a Krein space. Nevertheless, its energy bands can have non-trivial topological invariants like Chern numbers or winding numbers. By a thorough analysis for tight-binding models, it is proved that these invariants lead to bosonic edge modes which are robust to a large class of possibly disordered perturbations. Furthermore, general scenarios are presented for these edge states to be dynamically unstable, even though the bulk modes are stable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08798

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert spacesboson systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Spaces with indefinite inner product (Kre?n spaces, Pontryagin spaces, etc.) (46C20) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

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