matrix inside a matrix

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SAZZAD HOSSAIN
SAZZAD HOSSAIN on 5 Apr 2012
Hello everyone,
I am working on building an energy momentum relationship (E-K diagram) for a semiconductor. I am treating my periodic system with 100 unit cells and so i have a 100-by-100 matrix. The matrix is such that all the diagonal elements look like the same (say 3 3 3 ...... all across the diagonal), all the upper diagonal elements look the same (2 2 .......)and all the lower diagonal elements look the same too. The problem is i havent been able to build my 100 by 100 matrix when the diagonal elements look like say 3 4 5 3 4 5 3 4 5 ............ The same thing goes for the variation in upper and lower diagonal elements. Can anyone please help me what sort of command should i use?

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Seth DeLand
Seth DeLand on 5 Apr 2012
The REPMAT and DIAG commands should be able to do what you need:
A = repmat([3;4;5],5,1)
B = diag(A,0)
Check out the example in the documentation for DIAG on how to expand this to tridiagonal matrices.
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SAZZAD HOSSAIN
SAZZAD HOSSAIN on 6 Apr 2012
Thanks Seth. It works like a charm.

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