Dr Robert Jack | Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

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Professor of Statistical Mechanics

My research group includes people in the Dept of Chemistry and in the Dept of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). We investigate questions from physics, chemistry and mathematics, using the theory of statistical mechanics to understand the behaviour of complex systems including biomolecules, glassy liquids, and soft matter. I am particularly interested in co-operative dynamics: for example, how do molecules move in crowded environments? What are the co-operative mechanisms for colloidal self-assembly, and the folding of biomolecules?

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Publications

Yielding in colloidal gels: From local structure to mesoscale strand breakage and macroscopic failure

H Bhaumik, TB Liverpool, CP Royall, RL Jack

– Physical Review E

(2025)

111,

055412

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.111.055412)

Interfacial and density fluctuations in a lattice model of motility-induced phase separation.

L Yao, RL Jack

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2025)

162,

114902

(doi: 10.1063/5.0253530)

Efficient post-selection in light cone correlations of monitored quantum circuits

J Li, RL Jack, B Bertini, JP Garrahan

– Physical Review B

(2025)

111,

024309

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.024309)

Effects of phase separation on extinction times in population models

J Schüttler, RL Jack, ME Cates

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2024)

2024,

083209

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ad5c59)

Thermodynamically consistent flocking: from discontinuous to continuous transitions

T Agranov, RL Jack, ME Cates, É Fodor

– New Journal of Physics

(2024)

26,

063006

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad4dd6)

Emerging Mesoscale Flows and Chaotic Advection in Dense Active Matter.

Y-E Keta, JU Klamser, RL Jack, L Berthier

– Physical review letters

(2024)

132,

218301

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.218301)

Unraveling metastable Markovian open quantum systems

CA Brown, K Macieszczak, RL Jack

– Physical Review A

(2024)

109,

022244

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.109.022244)

Partial and complete wetting of droplets of active Brownian particles

F Turci, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Soft matter

(2024)

20,

2060

(doi: 10.1039/d3sm01493b)

Competition between lanes and transient jammed clusters in driven binary mixtures.

H Yu, RL Jack

– Physical review. E

(2024)

109,

024123

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.109.024123)

How do cicadas emerge together Thermophysical aspects of their collective decision-making

RE Goldstein, RL Jack, AI Pesci

– Physical Review E

(2024)

109,

L022401

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.109.l022401)