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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

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

RL Jack, P Wirnsberger, A Reinhardt

– J Chem Phys

(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

– Phys Rev 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

– The 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)

Stochastic level-set method for shape optimisation

LO Hedges, HA Kim, RL Jack

– Journal of Computational Physics

(2017)

348,

82

(doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.07.010)

Symmetries and geometrical properties of dynamical fluctuations in molecular dynamics

R Jack, M Kaiser, J Zimmer

– Entropy

(2017)

19,

562

(doi: 10.3390/e19100562)

Acceleration of Convergence to Equilibrium in Markov Chains by Breaking Detailed Balance

M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer

– J Stat Phys

(2017)

168,

259

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-017-1805-z)

Finite-Size Scaling of a First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition: Adaptive Population Dynamics and an Effective Model.

T Nemoto, RL Jack, V Lecomte

– Physical Review Letters

(2017)

118,

115702

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.115702)

Emergence of particle clusters in a one-dimensional model: Connection to condensation processes

M Burman, D Carpenter, RL Jack

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2017)

50,

135002

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa601b)