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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

Correction of coarse-graining errors by a two-level method: Application to the Asakura-Oosawa model.

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

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2019)

151,

144108

(doi: 10.1063/1.5120833)

Accelerated relaxation and suppressed dynamic heterogeneity in a kinetically constrained (East) model with swaps

R Gutiérrez, JP Garrahan, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2019)

2019,

094006

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab39d8)

A variational structure for interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic scaling limits

M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer

– Communications in Mathematical Sciences

(2019)

17,

739

(doi: 10.4310/CMS.2019.v17.n3.a7)

Large deviations in models of growing clusters with symmetry-breaking transitions

RL Jack

– Physical Review E

(2019)

100,

012140

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.012140)

Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems

F Carollo, RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Phys Rev Lett

(2019)

122,

130605

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.130605)

Microscopic analysis of thermo-orientation in systems of off-centre Lennard-Jones particles.

RL Jack, P Wirnsberger, A Reinhardt

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2019)

150,

134501

(doi: 10.1063/1.5089541)

Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming

T Nemoto, É Fodor, ME Cates, RL Jack, J Tailleur

– Physical Review E

(2019)

99,

022605

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.99.022605)

Effects of random pinning on the potential energy landscape of a supercooled liquid

SP Niblett, VK de Souza, RL Jack, DJ Wales

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2018)

149,

114503

(doi: 10.1063/1.5042140)

Efficient characterisation of large deviations using population dynamics

T Brewer, SR Clark, R Bradford, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2018)

2018,

053204

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aab3ef)

Canonical Structure and Orthogonality of Forces and Currents in Irreversible Markov Chains

M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer

– Journal of statistical physics

(2018)

170,

1019

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-018-1986-0)