Phase-Model Paper 05: A Phase-Freezing Closure Model for the Glass Transition

Version note (v2.0, 2026-04-06): This release updates editorial consistency across the Phase-Model series (Papers 01–13), including reference formatting, author-name normalization, and removal of local-path citation strings. The core model claims and rejection logic are unchanged unless explicitly stated below. This preprint proposes a phase-freezing closure model for the glass transition. The framework introduces a phase-freezing index linked to dynamic heterogeneity, relaxation-time growth, and viscosity scaling, and provides explicit threshold metrics and rejection criteria under cooling-rate and protocol-transfer validation.