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

Effects of phase separation on extinction times in population models

J Schüttler, RL Jack, ME Cates

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2024)

2024,

083209

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ad5c59)

Thermodynamically consistent flocking: from discontinuous to continuous transitions

T Agranov, RL Jack, ME Cates, É Fodor

– New Journal of Physics

(2024)

26,

063006

(doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad4dd6)

Emerging Mesoscale Flows and Chaotic Advection in Dense Active Matter.

Y-E Keta, JU Klamser, RL Jack, L Berthier

– Physical review letters

(2024)

132,

218301

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.218301)

Unraveling metastable Markovian open quantum systems

CA Brown, K Macieszczak, RL Jack

– Physical Review A

(2024)

109,

022244

(doi: 10.1103/physreva.109.022244)

Partial and complete wetting of droplets of active Brownian particles

F Turci, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Soft matter

(2024)

20,

2060

(doi: 10.1039/d3sm01493b)

Competition between lanes and transient jammed clusters in driven binary mixtures.

H Yu, RL Jack

– Physical review. E

(2024)

109,

024123

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.109.024123)

How do cicadas emerge together? Thermophysical aspects of their collective decision-making.

RE Goldstein, RL Jack, AI Pesci

– Physical review. E

(2024)

109,

l022401

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.109.l022401)

Heterogeneous nucleation in the random field Ising model.

L Yao, RL Jack

– J Chem Phys

(2023)

159,

244110

(doi: 10.1063/5.0181596)

Exact hydrodynamics and onset of phase separation for an active exclusion process

J Mason, C Erignoux, RL Jack, M Bruna

– Proceedings of the Royal Society A

(2023)

479,

20230524

(doi: 10.1098/rspa.2023.0524)

Necking and failure of a particulate gel strand: signatures of yielding on different length scales

K Thijssen, TB Liverpool, CP Royall, RL Jack

– Soft matter

(2023)

19,

7412

(doi: 10.1039/d3sm00681f)