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

Irreversibility and Biased Ensembles in Active Matter: Insights from Stochastic Thermodynamics
É Fodor, RL Jack, ME Cates
Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
(2021)
13
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
Critical point for demixing of binary hard spheres.
H Kobayashi, PB Rohrbach, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack
Physical review. E
(2021)
104
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)
8
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
Long-ranged correlations in large deviations of local clustering.
J Dolezal, RL Jack
Physical review. E
(2021)
103
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
(2021)
Collective motion in large deviations of active particles
Y-E Keta, É Fodor, F van Wijland, ME Cates, RL Jack
Physical Review E
(2021)
103
Preface: Special issue ‘Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII’
CP Royall, RL Jack, J Russo, C Cammarota, JP Garrahan, P Sollich
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020
Giant leaps and long excursions: Fluctuation mechanisms in systems with long-range memory.
RL Jack, RJ Harris
Phys Rev E
(2020)
102

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01223 763865

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