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

Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems
RL Jack, J Zimmer
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
(2014)
47
Information-Theoretic Measurements of Coupling between Structure and Dynamics in Glass Formers
RL Jack, AJ Dunleavy, CP Royall
Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
113
Dynamical Phase Transitions Reveal Amyloid-like States on Protein Folding Landscapes
JK Weber, RL Jack, CR Schwantes, VS Pande
Biophysical journal
(2014)
107
Investigating Amorphous Order in Stable Glasses by Random Pinning
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
Phys Rev Lett
(2014)
112
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
The Journal of chemical physics
(2014)
140
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
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
Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding
DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding
Soft Matter
(2013)
9
Dynamical correlations in a glass former with randomly pinned particles
RL Jack, CJ Fullerton
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2013)
88
Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: Interpreting measurements of dynamical activity
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
The Journal of chemical physics
(2013)
138

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