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

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

– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

(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)

Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics

RM Turner, RL Jack, JP Garrahan

– Physical Review E

(2015)

92,

022115

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.92.022115)

Self-assembly and crystallisation of indented colloids at a planar wall

DJ Ashton, SJ Ivell, RPA Dullens, RL Jack, NB Wilding, DGAL Aarts

– Soft Matter

(2015)

11,

6089

(doi: 10.1039/c5sm01043h)

Effective interactions and large deviations in stochastic processes

RL Jack, P Sollich

– The European Physical Journal Special Topics

(2015)

224,

2351

(doi: 10.1140/epjst/e2015-02416-9)

Porous Liquid Phases for Indented Colloids with Depletion Interactions

DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding

– Physical review letters

(2015)

114,

237801

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.237801)

Evidence for a Disordered Critical Point in a Glass-Forming Liquid.

L Berthier, RL Jack

– Phys Rev Lett

(2015)

114,

205701

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.205701)

Hyperuniformity and phase separation in biased ensembles of trajectories for diffusive systems

RL Jack, IR Thompson, P Sollich

– Physical Review Letters

(2015)

114,

060601

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.060601)

The statistical mechanics of dynamic pathways to self-assembly

S Whitelam, RL Jack

– Annu Rev Phys Chem

(2014)

66,

143

(doi: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121215)