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

Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture
D Coslovich, RL Jack
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2016)
2016
The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.
RL Jack, L Berthier
The Journal of chemical physics
(2016)
144
Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control
T Nemoto, F Bouchet, RL Jack, V Lecomte
Phys Rev E
(2016)
93
Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles
T Speck, RL Jack
Physical review. E
(2016)
93
Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses.
RL Jack, JP Garrahan
Physical Review Letters
(2016)
116
Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition
PK Jana, C Wang, RL Jack, L Chi, A Heuer
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2015)
92
Dynamical phase transitions in one-dimensional hard-particle systems
IR Thompson, RL Jack
Physical Review E
(2015)
92
Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics
RM Turner, RL Jack, JP Garrahan
Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2015)
92
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
Effective interactions and large deviations in stochastic processes
RL Jack, P Sollich
European Physical Journal Special Topics
(2015)
224

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01223 763865

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