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ArticleNature communications2026

Topological protection by local support symmetry and destructive interference.

Jun-Won Rhim, Jaeuk Seo, Seongjun Mo, Hoonkyung Lee, Sejoong Kim, B Andrei Bernevig

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Jun-Won RhimDepartment of Physics, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. jwrhim@ajou.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9094-0650
Jaeuk SeoDepartment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-5248-3226
Seongjun MoDepartment of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Hoonkyung LeeDepartment of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6417-1648
Sejoong KimDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Convergence Engineering, Hongik University, Sejong, Republic of Korea.
B Andrei BernevigDepartment of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. bernevig@princeton.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6337-4024

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation) GBMF8685National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00285390National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-NR068116United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-20-1-2303
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Abstract

Conventionally, symmetry-protected topological phases and band crossings are protected by global symmetries acting on the entire system. Here, we show that symmetries preserved only on a partial region of a system, termed local support symmetries, can protect topological features of the full system, even in the presence of symmetry-breaking couplings. We establish a unified framework by deriving explicit conditions for such protection in both insulating and metallic phases and show that destructive interference of Bloch wave functions plays a key role. Using representative tight-binding models, we demonstrate band crossings and topological bands protected by local support crystalline and time-reversal symmetries, and further present a realistic material realization in a fluorinated biphenylene network, where a band crossing is protected by a local support C

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