Professor Robert Jack | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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Career

2022-: Professor of Statistical Mechanics (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
2018-: Fellow, Emmanuel College
2017-2022: Interdisciplinary Lecturer (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
2008-2017: Lecturer / Reader, University of Bath
2006-2008: Postdoc, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
2004-2006: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
2000-2004: PhD, Physics, Imperial College London

Research

Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter, combining ideas and methods from mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Publications

Duality symmetries in driven one-dimensional hopping models

P Sollich, RL Jack

– Progress of Theoretical Physics

(2010)

184,

200

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.200)

Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition.

YS Elmatad, RL Jack, D Chandler, JP Garrahan

– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

(2010)

107,

12793

(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1006306107)

Metastable states and space-time phase transitions in a spin-glass model.

RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2010)

81,

011111

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011111)

Second-order dynamic transition in a p=2 spin-glass model.

K van Duijvendijk, RL Jack, F van Wijland

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2010)

81,

011110

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.81.011110)

Large deviations and ensembles of trajectories in stochastic models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement

(2010)

184,

304

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.304)

Duality Symmetries in Driven One-Dimensional Hopping Models

P Sollich, RL Jack

– Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement

(2010)

184,

200

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.200)

Dynamic order-disorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers.

LO Hedges, RL Jack, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Science

(2009)

323,

1309

(doi: 10.1126/science.1166665)

First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: An approach based on ensembles of histories

JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte, E Pitard, K Van Duijvendijk, F Van Wijland

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2009)

42,

075007

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/7/075007)

Subdiffusive motion in kinetically constrained models

RL Jack, P Sollich, P Mayer

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2008)

78,

061107

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.78.061107)

Duality between random trap and barrier models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2008)

41,

324001

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/41/32/324001)