Professor Robert Jack | Soft Matter

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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

Microscopic analysis of thermo-orientation in systems of off-centre Lennard-Jones particles

RL Jack, P Wirnsberger, A Reinhardt

– The Journal of chemical physics

(2019)

150,

134501

(doi: 10.1063/1.5089541)

Optimizing active work: Dynamical phase transitions, collective motion, and jamming

T Nemoto, É Fodor, ME Cates, RL Jack, J Tailleur

– Physical Review E

(2019)

99,

022605

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.99.022605)

Effects of random pinning on the potential energy landscape of a supercooled liquid

SP Niblett, VK de Souza, RL Jack, DJ Wales

– J Chem Phys

(2018)

149,

114503

(doi: 10.1063/1.5042140)

Efficient characterisation of large deviations using population dynamics

T Brewer, SR Clark, R Bradford, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2018)

2018,

053204

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aab3ef)

Canonical Structure and Orthogonality of Forces and Currents in Irreversible Markov Chains.

M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer

– Journal of statistical physics

(2018)

170,

1019

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-018-1986-0)

Stochastic level-set method for shape optimisation

LO Hedges, HA Kim, RL Jack

– Journal of Computational Physics

(2017)

348,

82

(doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.07.010)

Symmetries and geometrical properties of dynamical fluctuations in molecular dynamics

R Jack, M Kaiser, J Zimmer

– Entropy

(2017)

19,

562

(doi: 10.3390/e19100562)

Acceleration of Convergence to Equilibrium in Markov Chains by Breaking Detailed Balance.

M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer

– J Stat Phys

(2017)

168,

259

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-017-1805-z)

Finite-Size Scaling of a First-Order Dynamical Phase Transition: Adaptive Population Dynamics and an Effective Model.

T Nemoto, RL Jack, V Lecomte

– Physical review letters

(2017)

118,

115702

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.115702)

Emergence of particle clusters in a one-dimensional model: connection to condensation processes

M Burman, D Carpenter, RL Jack

– Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

(2017)

50,

135002

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa601b)