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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

Porous Liquid Phases for Indented Colloids with Depletion Interactions

DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Physical Review Letters

(2015)

114,

237801

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.237801)

Evidence for a Disordered Critical Point in a Glass-Forming Liquid

L Berthier, RL Jack

– Phys Rev Lett

(2015)

114,

205701

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.205701)

Hyperuniformity and phase separation in biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems.

RL Jack, IR Thompson, P Sollich

– Physical Review Letters

(2015)

114,

060601

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.060601)

The statistical mechanics of dynamic pathways to self-assembly

S Whitelam, RL Jack

– Annual review of physical chemistry

(2014)

66,

1

(doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121215)

Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems

RL Jack, J Zimmer

– Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

(2014)

47,

485001

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/48/485001)

Information-theoretic measurements of coupling between structure and dynamics in glass formers

RL Jack, AJ Dunleavy, CP Royall

– Physical review letters

(2014)

113,

095703

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.095703)

Dynamical phase transitions reveal amyloid-like states on protein folding landscapes

JK Weber, RL Jack, CR Schwantes, VS Pande

– Biophysical journal

(2014)

107,

974

(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.06.046)

Investigating Amorphous Order in Stable Glasses by Random Pinning

CJ Fullerton, RL Jack

– Physical review letters

(2014)

112,

255701

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.255701)

The effect of boundary adaptivity on hexagonal ordering and bistability in circularly confined quasi hard discs

I Williams, EC Oğuz, RL Jack, P Bartlett, H Löwen, CP Royall

– Journal of Chemical Physics

(2014)

140,

104907

(doi: 10.1063/1.4867785)

Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis.

RL Jack

– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

(2013)

88,

062113

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.88.062113)