Home › Forums › Hyperfine course › electric quadrupole interaction › quadrupole operator › Axial symmetry This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 1 month ago by Alexander Smeets. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts March 11, 2025 at 7:49 pm #6372 Alexander SmeetsParticipant We have axial symmetry in 2 situations: 1) when eta = 0 we have V_xx = V_yy, leading to axial symmetry. 2) In this simple toy model we will always have axial symmetry on the z-axis since the electrons are located on the z-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