Dr Rob Jack
Biographical Information
- Lecturer/EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow, University of Bath, 4/08 -
- Postdoctoral researcher, University of California at Berkeley, 1/06 - 3/08
- Research Associate, University of Oxford, 11/03 - 12/05
- Ph.D. (Imperial College London) 2004
- M.Sci (Cambridge) 2000
Research Interests
I study how microscopic events are correlated in space and time. Here, an event might be the movement of a molecule in a liquid, or the creation of a bond between two parts of a virus, as it forms inside an infected cell. Correlations between events have simple origins – for example, if a molecule in a dense material is to move, then other molecules must move out of the way. It follows that events which occur at similar times are often clustered in space. Even this simple effect can have far-reaching consequences, such as dynamical arrest in glass-forming liquids, or viruses that cannot assemble effectively. By developing and applying new theoretical and computational methods, I study event correlations in these systems, aiming to understand and control processes such as the glass transition, crystallisation, and self-assembly.
Publications
Fullerton, C.J. and Jack, R.L., 2013. Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids : Interpreting measurements of dynamical activity. Journal of Chemical Physics, 138 (22), 224506.
Klotsa, D. and Jack, R.L., 2013. Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme. Journal of Chemical Physics, 138 (9), 094502.
Weber, J.K., Jack, R.L. and Pande, V.S., 2013. Emergence of glass-like behavior in markov state models of protein folding dynamics. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135 (15), pp. 5501-5504.
Grant, J. and Jack, R. L., 2012. Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly. Physical Review E, 85 (2), 021112.
Jack, R. L. and Berthier, L., 2012. Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions. Physical Review E, 85 (2), 021120.
Jack, R. L., Hedges, L. O., Garrahan, J. P. and Chandler, D., 2011. Preparation and relaxation of very stable glassy states of a simulated liquid. Physical Review Letters, 107 (27), 275702.
Grant, J., Jack, R. L. and Whitelam, S., 2011. Analyzing mechanisms and microscopic reversibility of self-assembly. Journal of Chemical Physics, 135 (21), 214505.
Hagan, M. F., Elrad, O. M. and Jack, R. L., 2011. Mechanisms of kinetic trapping in self-assembly and phase transformation. Journal of Chemical Physics, 135 (10), 104115.
Klotsa, D. and Jack, R. L., 2011. Predicting the self-assembly of a model colloidal crystal. Soft Matter, 7 (13), pp. 6294-6303.
Elmatad, Y. S., Jack, R. L., Chandler, D. and Garrahan, J. P., 2010. Finite-temperature critical point of a glass transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (29), pp. 12793-12798.
van Duijvendijk, K., Jack, R. L. and van Wijland, F., 2010. Second-order dynamic transition in a p=2 spin-glass model. Physical Review E, 81 (1).
Sollich, P. and Jack, R. L., 2010. Duality symmetries in driven one-dimensional hopping models. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 184, pp. 200-210.
Jack, R. L. and Sollich, P., 2010. Large deviations and ensembles of trajectories in stochastic models. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 184, pp. 304-317.
Jack, R. L. and Garrahan, J. P., 2010. Metastable states and space-time phase transitions in a spin-glass model. Physical Review E, 81 (1).
Jack, R. L. and Sollich, P., 2009. Duality symmetries and effective dynamics in disordered hopping models. Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment
Hedges, L. O., Jack, R. L., Garrahan, J. P. and Chandler, D., 2009. Dynamic order-disorder in atomistic models of structural glass formers. Science, 323 (5919), pp. 1309-1313.
Garrahan, J. P., Jack, R. L., Lecomte, V., Pitard, E., van Duijvendijk, K. and van Wijland, F., 2009. First-order dynamical phase transition in models of glasses: an approach based on ensembles of histories. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 42 (7), 075007.
Jack, R. L., Sollich, P. and Mayer, P., 2008. Subdiffusive motion in kinetically constrained models. Physical Review E, 78 (6), 061107.
Jack, R., Kelsey, D., Garrahan, J. and Chandler, D., 2008. Negative differential mobility of weakly driven particles in models of glass formers. Physical Review E, 78 (1), 011506.
