Professor Robert Jack | Faculty of Mathematics

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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

Large deviations and ensembles of trajectories in stochastic models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement

(2010)

184,

304

(doi: 10.1143/ptps.184.304)

Dynamic order-disorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers.

LO Hedges, RL Jack, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Science (New York, N.Y.)

(2009)

323,

1309

(doi: 10.1126/science.1166665)

First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories

JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte, E Pitard, K Van Duijvendijk, F Van Wijland

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2009)

42,

075007

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/42/7/075007)

Subdiffusive motion in kinetically constrained models.

RL Jack, P Sollich, P Mayer

– Physical Review E

(2008)

78,

061107

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061107)

Duality between random trap and barrier models

RL Jack, P Sollich

– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

(2008)

41,

324001

(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/41/32/324001)

Negative differential mobility of weakly driven particles in models of glass formers

RL Jack, D Kelsey, JP Garrahan, D Chandler

– Physical Review E

(2008)

78,

011506

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.78.011506)

Structure and dynamics of glass formers: predictability at large length scales.

L Berthier, RL Jack

– Physical Review E

(2007)

76,

041509

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.76.041509)

Fluctuation-dissipation ratios in the dynamics of self-assembly

RL Jack, MF Hagan, D Chandler

– Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

(2007)

76,

021119

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.76.021119)

Dynamical first-order phase transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses.

JP Garrahan, RL Jack, V Lecomte, E Pitard, K van Duijvendijk, F van Wijland

– Physical review letters

(2007)

98,

195702

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.195702)

Fluctuation-dissipation relations in plaquette spin systems with multi-stage relaxation

RL Jack, L Berthier, JP Garrahan

– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment

(2006)

2006,

P12005

(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/12/p12005)