Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

condensed-matter physics: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Photos

A high-resolution electron microscope image of quasicrystalline aluminum-manganese-silicon, revealing a fivefold symmetry of atomic positions.
See All Images →

Related Topics and References

Topics
Dig Deeper: More Articles That Discuss This Topic

Key People

Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
default image
Allan MacDonald
Canadian-American physicist
default image
Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel
French physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-born American physicist
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist
Philip W. Anderson
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist