Home › Forums › Hyperfine course › electric quadrupole interaction › quadrupole operator › Task 1: axial symmetry This topic has 0 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 9 months, 1 week ago by Lotte Bekaert. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts March 16, 2024 at 1:00 pm #5508 Lotte BekaertParticipant – The Vxx and Vyy components in the matrix are the same, so eta = 0. – The electrons are symmetric w.r.t. rotations around the z-axis, so there is axial symmetry of the electron cloud around 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