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

Large deviations and ensembles of trajectories in stochastic models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

(2010)

184,

304

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.304)

Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition

YS Elmatad, RL Jack, D Chandler, JP Garrahan

– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

(2010)

107,

12793

(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006306107)

Second-order dynamic transition in a p=2 spin-glass model

K van Duijvendijk, RL Jack, F van Wijland

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2010)

81,

011110

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011110)

Metastable states and space-time phase transitions in a spin-glass model

RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2010)

81,

011111

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011111)

Large deviations and ensembles of trajectories in stochastic models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Progress of Theoretical Physics

(2010)

184,

304

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.304)

Duality symmetries in driven one-dimensional hopping models

P Sollich, RL Jack

– Progress of Theoretical Physics

(2010)

184,

200

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.200)

Dynamic order-disorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers

LO Hedges, RL Jack, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Science (New York, N.Y.)

(2009)

323,

1309

(doi: 10.1126/science.1166665)

First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories

JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte, E Pitard, K van Duijvendijk, F van Wijland

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2009)

42,

075007

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/7/075007)

Subdiffusive motion in kinetically constrained models.

RL Jack, P Sollich, P Mayer

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2008)

78,

061107

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061107)

Duality between random trap and barrier models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2008)

41,

324001

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/41/32/324001)