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

Dynamical phase coexistence in the Fredrickson-Andersen model
RL Jack, T Nemoto, V Lecomte
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020
Inference, prediction and optimization of non-pharmaceutical interventions using compartment models: the PyRoss library
R Adhikari, A Bolitho, F Caballero, ME Cates, J Dolezal, T Ekeh, J Guioth, RL Jack, J Kappler, L Kikuchi, H Kobayashi, YI Li, JD Peterson, P Pietzonka, B Remez, PB Rohrbach, R Singh, G Turk
(2020)
Ergodicity and large deviations in physical systems with stochastic dynamics
RL Jack
European Physical Journal B
(2020)
93
Assessing the structural heterogeneity of supercooled liquids through community inference.
J Paret, RL Jack, D Coslovich
The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2020)
152
Large deviations and optimal control forces for hard particles in one dimension
J Dolezal, RL Jack
Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019
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
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
A variational structure for interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic scaling limits
M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer
Communications in Mathematical Sciences
(2019)
17
Large deviations in models of growing clusters with symmetry-breaking transitions
RL Jack
Physical review. E
(2019)
100
Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems.
F Carollo, RL Jack, JP Garrahan
Physical review letters
(2019)
122

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01223 763865

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