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Classification of topological insulators and superconductors with multiple order-two point group symmetries

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-03-16 v2

Abstract

We present a method for computing the classification groups of topological insulators and superconductors in the presence of Z2×n\mathbb{Z}_2^{\times n} point group symmetries, for arbitrary natural numbers nn. Each symmetry class is characterized by four possible additional symmetry types for each generator of Z2×n\mathbb{Z}_2^{\times n}, together with bit values encoding whether pairs of generators commute or anticommute. We show that the classification is fully determined by the number of momentum- and real-space variables flipped by each generator, as well as the number of variables simultaneously flipped by any pair of generators. As a concrete illustration, we provide the complete classification table for the case of Z2×2\mathbb{Z}_2^{\times 2} point group symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2509.02168,
  title  = {Classification of topological insulators and superconductors with multiple order-two point group symmetries},
  author = {Ken Shiozaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02168},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: Corrected errors in Eqs. (8, 9, 16, 23, 25, 42, 43) and Table 6