[Physics] What symmetry class does 1D spinless $p$-wave superconductor belongs to

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$Z_{2}$ topological invariant exist for Kitaev model.

What symmetries does it conserve? And to what symmetry class it belongs to?
The hamiltonian for kitaev model can be written as
$$
H=\sum_k \phi_k^\dagger \begin{pmatrix} \xi(k) & 2i\Delta \sin(k)\\ -2i\Delta \sin(k ) & -\xi(k)\end{pmatrix}\phi(k)
$$

Best Answer

It belongs to the symmetry class of no symmetry. i.e. the only symmetry is the fermion-number-parity conservation $Z_2^f$, which is always the symmetry of fermionic systems. See my paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.6341 for a discussion on the full-symmetry group $G_f$ for fermion systems.