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Despite the absence of consensus on a theory of the transition from supercooled liquids to glasses, the experimental observations suggest that a detail-independent theory should exist.

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Figure 1: Temperature-dependent effective activation energy of several supercooled liquids (see equation (1)) in units of the empirically determined crossover temperature scale, T*.
Figure 2: Temperature-dependent viscosity of ortho-terphenyl, with the various possibly important temperatures indicated by arrows.

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    Steven A. Kivelson

  2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Universite P. and M. Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75252, Cedex 05, France

    Gilles Tarjus

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Kivelson, S., Tarjus, G. In search of a theory of supercooled liquids. Nature Mater 7, 831–833 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2304

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