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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

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

– J Chem Phys

(2014)

140,

104907

(doi: 10.1063/1.4867785)

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

RL Jack

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2013)

88,

062113

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.062113)

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

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

(2013)

88,

042304

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.88.042304)

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

CJ Fullerton, RL Jack

– The Journal of Chemical Physics

(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)