University Associate Professor

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

Emergence of glass-like behavior in Markov state models of protein folding dynamics.
JK Weber, RL Jack, VS Pande
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2013)
135
Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme.
D Klotsa, RL Jack
The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138
Space-time phase transitions in the East model with a softened kinetic constraint.
YS Elmatad, RL Jack
The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138
Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions
RL Jack, L Berthier
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2012)
85
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly
J Grant, RL Jack
Physical Review E
(2012)
85
Preparation and Relaxation of Very Stable Glassy States of a Simulated Liquid
RL Jack, LO Hedges, JP Garrahan, D Chandler
Physical Review Letters
(2011)
107
Analyzing mechanisms and microscopic reversibility of self-assembly
J Grant, RL Jack, S Whitelam
Journal of Chemical Physics
(2011)
135
Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation.
MF Hagan, OM Elrad, RL Jack
J Chem Phys
(2011)
135
Overview of different characterizations of dynamic heterogeneity
L Berthier, G Biroli, J Bouchaud, RL Jack
(2011)
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Predicting the self-assembly of a model colloidal crystal
D Klotsa, RL Jack
Soft Matter
(2011)
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