Thierry Giamarchi is a former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and received his Phd from Paris XI University in 1987. He has been a permanent member of the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) since 1986 and spent two years as a postdoc at AT&T Bell laboratories. In 2002 he moved as a full professor to the University of Geneva, where he is now the director of the Quantum Matter Physics Department. His research work deals with the effects of interactions in low dimensional quantum systems, such as Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids, and on the effects of disorder in classical and quantum systems for which he likes to show that they lead to novel disordered phases such as the Bose glass and the Bragg glass. He received the Abragam prize from the French Academy of Sciences and since 2013 is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. In addition to numerous research publications he is the author of a monograph on “Quantum Physics in one Dimension”.

This book presents in a pedagogical yet complete way correlated systems in one dimension. Recent progress in nanotechnology and material research have made one dimensional systems a crucial part of today's physics. After an introduction to the basic concepts of correlated systems, the book gives a step by step description of the techniques needed to treat one dimension, and discusses the resulting physics. Then specific experimental realizations of one dimensional systems such as spin chains, quantum wires, nanotubes, organic superconductors etc. are examined. Given its progressive and pedagogical approach, this book should satisfy both graduate students who want to learn the tools of the trade and become professionals in the field as well as more advanced researchers who want to know more about the physics of a specific one dimensional system without unnecessary technicalities.