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?

Publications

Critical point for demixing of binary hard spheres.

H Kobayashi, PB Rohrbach, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack

– Physical review. E

(2021)

104,

044603

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044603)

Efficient Bayesian inference of fully stochastic epidemiological models with applications to COVID-19.

YI Li, G Turk, PB Rohrbach, P Pietzonka, J Kappler, R Singh, J Dolezal, T Ekeh, L Kikuchi, JD Peterson, A Bolitho, H Kobayashi, ME Cates, R Adhikari, RL Jack

– Royal Society open science

(2021)

211065

(doi: 10.1098/rsos.211065)

Large Deviations at Level 2.5 for Markovian Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Jumps and Quantum State Diffusion

F Carollo, JP Garrahan, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Physics

(2021)

184,

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-021-02799-x)

Long-ranged correlations in large deviations of local clustering

J Dolezal, RL Jack