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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

Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture

D Coslovich, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2016)

2016,

074012

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/07/074012)

The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.

RL Jack, L Berthier

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2016)

144,

244506

(doi: 10.1063/1.4954327)

Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control.

T Nemoto, F Bouchet, RL Jack, V Lecomte

– Physical Review E

(2016)

93,

062123

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.062123)

Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles

T Speck, RL Jack

– Physical review. E

(2016)

93,

062605

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062605)

Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses.

RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Physical review letters

(2016)

116,

055702

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.055702)

Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition

PK Jana, C Wang, RL Jack, L Chi, A Heuer

– Physical Review E

(2015)

92,

052402

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.92.052402)

Dynamical phase transitions in one-dimensional hard-particle systems

IR Thompson, RL Jack

– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

(2015)

92,

052115

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052115)

Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics.

RM Turner, RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2015)

92,

022115

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.92.022115)

Self-assembly and crystallisation of indented colloids at a planar wall

DJ Ashton, SJ Ivell, RPA Dullens, RL Jack, NB Wilding, DGAL Aarts

– Soft Matter

(2015)

11,

6089

(doi: 10.1039/c5sm01043h)

Effective interactions and large deviations in stochastic processes

RL Jack, P Sollich

– European Physical Journal: Special Topics

(2015)

224,

2351

(doi: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02416-9)