{ "id": "0804.1718", "version": "v2", "published": "2008-04-10T14:18:31.000Z", "updated": "2015-02-16T05:32:20.000Z", "title": "In search of a theory of supercooled liquids", "authors": [ "Steve A. Kivelson", "Gilles Tarjus" ], "comment": "Commentary. 3 pages 2 figures", "journal": "Published in Nature Materials 7, 831-833 (2008)", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech" ], "abstract": "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-04-10T14:18:31.000Z", "title": "Constraints on the theory of supercooled liquids as they become glassy", "abstract": "We summarize the reasons to believe that there exists a detail-independent collective description of the salient properties of fragile supercooled liquids as they approach the glass transition. Assuming that such a theory exists, we explore the constraints on its character implied by existing experimental observations.", "comment": "Commentary. 4 pages, 2 figures", "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 88, 052708 (2013)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.88.052708", "authors": [ "Steve Kivelson", "Gilles Tarjus" ] }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2015-02-16T05:32:20.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "87.15.-v" ], "keywords": [ "constraints", "existing experimental observations", "glass transition", "detail-independent collective description", "salient properties" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review E", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.88.052708", "year": 2013, "month": "Nov", "volume": 88, "number": 5, "pages": "052708" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013PhRvE..88e2708M" } } }