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Dr Robert Jack

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

Disordered Collective Motion in Dense Assemblies of Persistent Particles
Y-E Keta, RL Jack, L Berthier
– Phys Rev Lett
(2022)
129,
048002
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.048002)
Role of initial conditions in $1D$ diffusive systems: compressibility, hyperuniformity and long-term memory
T Banerjee, RL Jack, ME Cates
(2022)
(link to publication)
Direct imaging of contacts and forces in colloidal gels.
J Dong, F Turci, RL Jack, MA Faers, CP Royall
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2022)
156,
214907
(doi: 10.1063/5.0089276)
Multilevel simulation of hard-sphere mixtures
PB Rohrbach, H Kobayashi, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack
(2022)
(link to publication)
Rectification in a mixture of active and passive particles subject to a ratchet potential
JF Derivaux, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2022)
2022,
043203
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ac601f)
Tracer dynamics in one dimensional gases of active or passive particles
T Banerjee, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2022)
2022,
013209
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ac4801)
Cycle counts and affinities in stochastic models of nonequilibrium systems
P Pietzonka, J Guioth, RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2021)
104,
064137
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.064137)
Bayesian inference across multiple models suggests a strong increase in lethality of COVID-19 in late 2020 in the UK
P Pietzonka, E Brorson, W Bankes, ME Cates, RL Jack, R Adhikari
– PloS one
(2021)
16,
e0258968
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258968)
Irreversibility and Biased Ensembles in Active Matter: Insights from Stochastic Thermodynamics
E Fodor, RL Jack, ME Cates
– Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
(2021)
13,
1
(doi: 10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031720-032419)
Dynamical phase transition in the activity-biased fully-connected random field Ising model: Connection with glass-forming systems
J Guioth, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2021)
2021,
103206
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ac2895)
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Email address

rlj22@cam.ac.uk

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