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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

Coarse-grained depletion potentials for anisotropic colloids: Application to lock-and-key systems.
C Law, DJ Ashton, NB Wilding, RL Jack
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
145,
084907
Note: Physical mechanisms for the bulk melting of stable glasses.
RL Jack, L Berthier
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
145,
076101
Structure of inactive states of a binary Lennard-Jones mixture
D Coslovich, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2016)
2016,
074012
The melting of stable glasses is governed by nucleation-and-growth dynamics.
RL Jack, L Berthier
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2016)
144,
244506
Population-dynamics method with a multicanonical feedback control
T Nemoto, F Bouchet, RL Jack, V Lecomte
– Physical review. E
(2016)
93,
062123
Ideal bulk pressure of active Brownian particles
T Speck, RL Jack
– Phys Rev E
(2016)
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
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
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
Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics
RM Turner, RL Jack, JP Garrahan
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(2015)
92,
022115
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431