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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

Large deviations of the dynamical activity in the East model: analysing structure in biased trajectories

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2013)

47,

015003

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/47/1/015003)

Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding.

DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Soft Matter

(2013)

9,

9661

(doi: 10.1039/c3sm51839f)

Dynamical correlations in a glass former with randomly pinned particles.

RL Jack, CJ Fullerton

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2013)

88,

042304

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.88.042304)

Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: Interpreting measurements of dynamical activity

CJ Fullerton, RL Jack

– J Chem Phys

(2013)

138,

224506

(doi: 10.1063/1.4808152)

Emergence of Glass-like Behavior in Markov State Models of Protein Folding Dynamics

JK Weber, RL Jack, VS Pande

– Journal of the American Chemical Society

(2013)

135,

5501

(doi: 10.1021/ja4002663)

Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme.

D Klotsa, RL Jack

– J Chem Phys

(2013)

138,

094502

(doi: 10.1063/1.4793527)

Space-time phase transitions in the East model with a softened kinetic constraint.

YS Elmatad, RL Jack

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2013)

138,

12a531

(doi: 10.1063/1.4779110)

Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions.

RL Jack, L Berthier

– Physical Review E

(2012)

85,

021120

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021120)

Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: an analogy with self-assembly.

J Grant, RL Jack

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2012)

85,

021112

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.021112)

Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid

RL Jack, LO Hedges, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Phys Rev Lett

(2011)

107,

275702

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.275702)