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Enhanced Phonon Peak in Four-point Dynamic Susceptibility in the Supercooled Active Glass-forming Liquids

Active glassy systems can be thought of as simple model systems that imitate complex biological systems. Sometimes, it becomes crucial to estimate the amount of the activity present in such biological systems, such as predicting the progression rate of the cancer cells or the healing time of the wound. In this work, we study a model active glassy system to understand a possible quantification of the degree of activity from the collective, long-range phonon response in the system. We find that the four-point dynamic susceptibility, $χ_4(t)$ at the phonon timescale, grows with increased activity. We then show how one can estimate the degree of the activity at such a small timescale by measuring the growth of $χ_4(t)$ with changing activity. A detailed finite size analysis of this measurement, shows that the peak height of $χ_4(t)$ at this phonon timescale increases strongly with increasing system size suggesting a possible existence of an intrinsic dynamic length scale that grows with increasing activity. Finally, we show that this peak height is a unique function of effective activity across all system sizes, serving as a possible parameter for characterizing the degree of activity in a system.