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Flying to the bottom

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It has been shown that glasses prepared by physical vapour deposition have extraordinary stability. A computer algorithm that mimics such a process has now identified the optimal deposition temperature and the glasses' structural features.

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Figure 1: The energy landscape of a glass.
Figure 2: Diagram of a vapour-deposited glass configuration.

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  1. Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Sciortino are at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy,

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