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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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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