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

Absence of dissipation in trajectory ensembles biased by currents

RL Jack, RML Evans

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2016)

2016,

093305

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/09/093305)

Coarse-grained depletion potentials for anisotropic colloids: Application to lock-and-key systems

C Law, DJ Ashton, NB Wilding, RL Jack

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2016)

145,

084907

(doi: 10.1063/1.4961541)

Note: Physical mechanisms for the bulk melting of stable glasses

RL Jack, L Berthier

– J Chem Phys

(2016)

145,

076101

(doi: 10.1063/1.4961230)

Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture

D Coslovich, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2016)

2016,

074012

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/07/074012)

The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.

RL Jack, L Berthier

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2016)

144,

244506

(doi: 10.1063/1.4954327)

Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control

T Nemoto, F Bouchet, RL Jack, V Lecomte

– Physical review. E

(2016)

93,

062123

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062123)

Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles

T Speck, RL Jack

– Phys Rev E

(2016)

93,

062605

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.062605)

Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses

RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Physical Review Letters

(2016)

116,

055702

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.055702)

Anomalous approach to thermodynamic equilibrium: Structure formation of molecules after vapor deposition

PK Jana, C Wang, RL Jack, L Chi, A Heuer

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

(2015)

92,

052402

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.052402)

Dynamical phase transitions in one-dimensional hard-particle systems

IR Thompson, RL Jack

– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics

(2015)

92,

052115

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.92.052115)