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Ideal glass would explain why glass exists at all
- stallmanite 7y agoIt sounds from the article like they’re using simulated annealing (the computational technique) to literally simulate annealing. Don’t know why but that blows my mind. From the article: Two years ago, though, Berthier found a trick that allowed him to speed up the process by a factor of 1 trillion. His algorithm picks two particles at random and swaps their positions. These shake-ups help the simulated liquid stay unstuck, allowing molecules to settle into snugger fits — just as the ability to swap two ill-fitting shapes would help in Tetris.