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

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)

Active–passive mixtures with bulk loading: a minimal active engine in one dimension

JF Derivaux, RL Jack, ME Cates

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2023)

2023,

083212

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/acecfa)

How do Cicadas Emerge Together? Thermophysical Aspects of Their Collective Decision-Making

R Goldstein, R Jack, A Pesci

(2023)

(doi: 10.1101/2023.07.31.551222)

Tricritical Behavior in Dynamical Phase Transitions.

T Agranov, ME Cates, RL Jack

– Physical Review Letters

(2023)

131,

017102

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.017102)

Intermittent relaxation and avalanches in extremely persistent active matter

Y-E Keta, R Mandal, P Sollich, RL Jack, L Berthier

– Soft Matter

(2023)

19,

3871

(doi: 10.1039/d3sm00034f)

Thermal vestiges of avalanches in the driven random field Ising model

L Yao, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2023)

2023,

023303

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/acb7ee)

Macroscopic behaviour in a two-species exclusion process via the method of matched asymptotics

J Mason, RL Jack, M Bruna

– Journal of Statistical Physics

(2023)

190,

47

(doi: 10.1007/s10955-022-03036-9)

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)

(doi: 10.1039/d3sm00681)

Entropy production and its large deviations in an active lattice gas

T Agranov, ME Cates, RL Jack

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

(2022)

2022,

123201

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aca0eb)