Intuition suggests that the occurrence of large quantum fluctuations should prevent a material from forming a glass, yet theory and simulations that explicitly incorporate such fluctuations suggest the opposite could be true.
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Zamponi, F. Quantum glass forging. Nature Phys 7, 99–100 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1901
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