Home › Forums › Hyperfine course › electric quadrupole interaction › quadrupole operator › determining presence of axial symmetry This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 year, 9 months ago by Jeroen Neyns. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts March 14, 2023 at 11:28 am #4308 Jeroen NeynsParticipant 1. A tensor (of rank 2) has axial symmetry when it remains unchanged under the rotation operation. 2. The toy model depicted is perfectly symmetrical in the x-y, y-z and x-z plane so it remains unchanged when rotated around any axis. Author Posts Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In