Scaling theory for the glass transition

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Abstract
The technologically important viscoelastic structural properties of glasses are largely determined at the glass transition, where the supercooled liquid falls out of equilibrium. We examine recent experimental evidence that there is a thermodynamic critical point underlying this transition. We argue that the behavior of glasses can be understood using static and dynamical scaling about this critical point. We propose a scaling theory of the glass-transition critical point.