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All Majorana Models with Translation Symmetry are Supersymmetric

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We establish results similar to Kramers and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems but involving only translation symmetry and for Majorana modes. In particular, we show that all states are at least doubly degenerate in any one and two dimensional array of Majorana modes with translation symmetry, periodic boundary conditions, and an odd number of modes per unit cell. Moreover, we show that all such systems have an underlying $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry and explicitly construct the generator of the supersymmetry. Furthermore, we establish that there cannot be a unique gapped ground state in such one dimensional systems with anti-periodic boundary conditions. These general results are fundamentally a consequence of the fact that translations for Majorana modes are represented projectively, which in turn stems from the anomalous nature of a single Majorana mode. An experimental signature of the degeneracy arising from supersymmetry is a zero-bias peak in tunneling conductance.

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Symmetry-Enforced Fermi Surfaces

cond-mat.str-el · 2025-12-03 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A noncompact Lie group symmetry generated by U(1) fermion number and Majorana translations enforces Fermi surfaces that generically have at least two noncontractible components in d-dimensional Bravais lattices.

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  • Symmetry-Enforced Fermi Surfaces cond-mat.str-el · 2025-12-03 · unverdicted · none · ref 18 · internal anchor

    A noncompact Lie group symmetry generated by U(1) fermion number and Majorana translations enforces Fermi surfaces that generically have at least two noncontractible components in d-dimensional Bravais lattices.

  • What's Done Cannot Be Undone: TASI Lectures on Non-Invertible Symmetries hep-th · 2023-08-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 202 · internal anchor

    A survey of non-invertible symmetries with constructions in the Ising model and applications to neutral pion decay and other systems.