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

Static and dynamic length scales in a simple glassy plaquette model.

RL Jack, L Berthier, JP Garrahan

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2005)

72,

016103

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.72.016103)

Glassy behavior in an exactly solved spin system with a ferromagnetic transition.

RL Jack, JP Garrahan, D Sherrington

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(2005)

71,

036112

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.71.036112)

Quantum and classical dissipative effects on tunneling in quantum Hall bilayers

RL Jack, DKK Lee, NR Cooper

– Physical Review B

(2005)

71,

085310

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.71.085310)

Dissipation and tunneling in quantum hall bilayers

RL Jack, DKK Lee, NR Cooper

– Physical review letters

(2004)

93,

126803

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.126803)

Bosons in fluctuating gauge fields: Bose metal and phase separation

RL Jack, DKK Lee

– Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

(2002)

66,

104526

(doi: 10.1103/physrevb.66.104526)