Controlling the Glass Transition through Active Fluctuating Interactions
arXiv:2509.07619 · doi:10.1103/fm3j-829g
Abstract
Fluctuating pairwise interactions are understood to drive fluid-like states in dense biological systems. These states find a broad range of functionalities, such as directing growth during morphogenesis and forming aggregates with heightened mechanical response. However, a tractable model capturing the role of microscopic fluctuating interactions in these structural transitions is crucially lacking. Here, we study a -spin model with fluctuating pairwise couplings (of strength and persistence time ) as a schematic model for interaction-mediated fluidization. We find that while stronger fluctuations suppress the glass transition, more persistent fluctuations have the opposite effect. We identify the presence of an emergent fluctuation-dissipation relation at long times. We numerically extract the critical temperature from a scaling relation near the transition, illustrating how microscopic fluctuations control the glass transition.
8 pages (4 figures) of main text + 15 pages (3 figures) of supplementary information
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