Abstract
The world of materials presents an extraordinary diversity of architectures (crystals, glasses, foams, gels) and physical behaviors (metals, insulators, semiconductors, superconductors). Quantum Condensed Matter Physics seeks to understand their properties. Many modern technologies (the transistor or medical imaging by nuclear magnetic resonance, for example) have their origins in fundamental discoveries in this field. Antoine Georges takes us on a fascinating journey, from the organized forms of matter on a macroscopic scale to its intimate constituents on an atomic scale.
