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Letter

Nature Physics 2, 526–531 (1 August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nphys366

Dynamic particle tracking reveals the ageing temperature of a colloidal glass

Ping Wang , Chaoming Song & Hern|[aacute]|n A. Makse

The glass transition is considered to be one of the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Despite decades of effort, a general consensus on the validity of a universal theory for the large variety of glass systems is lacking—partly because of difficulties encountered in the experimental testing of the theoretical predictions.