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Research Summary

My research is in the broad area of statistical physics and its applications. More information, including publications, can be found in my personal page here.

Brief Vita:

2020: Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 2007-present: Professor of Physics, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham 2007: Pitzer Visiting Professor, Dept. Chemistry, UC Berkeley 2006-07: Reader and Associate Professor, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham 2003-08: EPSRC Advanced Fellow 2003-06: Lecturer (assistant professor), School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham 2000-03: Glasstone Fellow, University of Oxford 2000-02: Lecturer in Physics, Balliol College, Oxford 1998-2000: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford 1997: PhD in Physics, University of Buenos Aires 1992-93: Research Visitor, Theoretical Physics, Oxford 1992: Licenciado in Physics, University of Buenos Aires

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Selected Publications

• GARRAHAN, J.P. and CHANDLER, D., 2002. Geometrical explanation and scaling of dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming systems Physical Review Letters. 89(3), 035704
• 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), 1309-1313
• GARRAHAN, J.P. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2010. Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories Physical Review Letters. 104(16), 160601
• GARRAHAN, J. P., JACK, R. L., LECOMTE, V., PITARD, E., VAN DUIJVENDIJK, K. and VAN WIJLAND, F., 2007. Dynamical first-order phase transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses Physical Review Letters. 98,

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• BRANDNER, KAY, MAISI, VILLE F., PEKOLA, JUKKA P., GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and FLINDT, CHRISTIAN, 2017. Experimental Determination of Dynamical Lee-Yang Zeros PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 118(18),
• MACIESZCZAK, KATARZYNA, GUTA, MADALIN, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2016. Dynamical phase transitions as a resource for quantum enhanced metrology PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 93(2),
• JAMES M HICKEY, SAM GENWAY and JUAN P GARRAHAN, 2016. Signatures of many-body localisation in a system without disorder and the relation to a glass transition Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2016(5), 054047
• JACK, ROBERT L. and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2016. Phase Transition for Quenched Coupled Replicas in a Plaquette Spin Model of Glasses Phys. Rev. Lett.. 116, 055702
• MACIESZCZAK, KATARZYNA, GUTA, MADALIN, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2016. Towards a Theory of Metastability in Open Quantum Dynamics Phys. Rev. Lett.. 116, 240404
• OAKES, TOM, GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and POWELL, STEPHEN, 2016. Emergence of cooperative dynamics in fully packed classical dimers Phys. Rev. E. 93, 032129
• VALADO, M. M., SIMONELLI, C., HOOGERLAND, M. D., LESANOVSKY, I., GARRAHAN, J. P., ARIMONDO, E., CIAMPINI, D. and MORSCH, O., 2016. Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas Phys. Rev. A. 93, 040701
• LEVI, EMANUELE, HEYL, MARKUS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2016. Robustness of Many-Body Localization in the Presence of Dissipation Phys. Rev. Lett.. 116, 237203
• KEYS, AARON S., CHANDLER, DAVID and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Using the $s$ ensemble to probe glasses formed by cooling and aging Phys. Rev. E. 92, 022304
• VAN HORSSEN, MERLIJN, LEVI, EMANUELE and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Dynamics of many-body localization in a translation-invariant quantum glass model Phys. Rev. B. 92, 100305
• VAN HORSSEN, MERLIJN and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Open quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics: Absorbing states and relaxation Phys. Rev. E. 91, 032132
• GUTI'ERREZ, RICARDO, GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2015. Self-similar nonequilibrium dynamics of a many-body system with power-law interactions Phys. Rev. E. 92, 062144
• HUSH, MICHAEL R., LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Generic map from non-Lindblad to Lindblad master equations Phys. Rev. A. 91, 032113
• KIUKAS, JUKKA, GUTA, MADALIN, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Equivalence of matrix product ensembles of trajectories in open quantum systems Phys. Rev. E. 92, 012132
• S PIGEON, A XUEREB, I LESANOVSKY, J P GARRAHAN, G DE CHIARA and M PATERNOSTRO, 2015. Dynamical symmetries and crossovers in a three-spin system with collective dissipation New J. Phys.. 17(1), 015010
• EMANUELE LEVI, JIV RÍ MINÁV R, JUAN P GARRAHAN and IGOR LESANOVSKY, 2015. Crystalline structures and frustration in a two-component Rydberg gas New J. Phys.. 17(12), 123017
• M MARCUZZI, E LEVI, W LI, J P GARRAHAN, B OLMOS and I LESANOVSKY, 2015. Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases New J. Phys.. 17(7), 072003
• TURNER, ROBERT M., JACK, ROBERT L. and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2015. Overlap and activity glass transitions in plaquette spin models with hierarchical dynamics Phys. Rev. E. 92, 022115
• WHITELAM, STEPHEN, TAMBLYN, ISAAC, GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and BETON, PETER H., 2015. Emergent Rhombus Tilings from Molecular Interactions with $M$-fold Rotational Symmetry Phys. Rev. Lett.. 114, 115702
• ADRIAN A BUDINI, ROBERT M TURNER and JUAN P GARRAHAN, 2014. Fluctuating observation time ensembles in the thermodynamics of trajectories J. Stat. Mech.. P03012
• GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Transition in coupled replicas may not imply a finite-temperature ideal glass transition in glass-forming systems Phys. Rev. E. 89, 030301
• HICKEY, JAMES M., FLINDT, CHRISTIAN and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Intermittency and dynamical Lee-Yang zeros of open quantum systems Phys. Rev. E. 90, 062128
• HICKEY, JAMES M., LEVI, EMANUELE and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Cumulants of time-integrated observables of closed quantum systems and $mathcalPT$ symmetry with an application to the quantum Ising chain Phys. Rev. B. 90, 094301
• HICKEY, JAMES M., GENWAY, SAM and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Dynamical phase transitions, time-integrated observables, and geometry of states Phys. Rev. B. 89, 054301
• MEY, ANTONIA S. J. S., GEISSLER, PHILLIP L. and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Rare-event trajectory ensemble analysis reveals metastable dynamical phases in lattice proteins Phys. Rev. E. 89, 032109
• ROBERT M TURNER, THOMAS SPECK and JUAN P GARRAHAN, 2014. Meta-work and the analogous Jarzynski relation in ensembles of dynamical trajectories J. Stat. Mech.. 2014(9), P09017
• GENWAY, SAM, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Localization in space and time in disordered-lattice open quantum dynamics Phys. Rev. E. 89, 042129
• SAM GENWAY, JAMES M HICKEY, JUAN P GARRAHAN and ANDREW D ARMOUR, 2014. Trajectory phases of a quantum dot model J. Phys. A. 47(50), 505001
• WHITELAM, STEPHEN, TAMBLYN, ISAAC, HAXTON, THOMAS K., WIELAND, MARIA B., CHAMPNESS, NEIL R., GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and BETON, PETER H., 2014. Common Physical Framework Explains Phase Behavior and Dynamics of Atomic, Molecular, and Polymeric Network Formers Phys. Rev. X. 4, 011044
• OLMOS, BEATRIZ, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2014. Out-of-equilibrium evolution of kinetically constrained many-body quantum systems under purely dissipative dynamics Phys. Rev. E. 90, 042147
• MARCUZZI, MATTEO, LEVI, EMANUELE, DIEHL, SEBASTIAN, GARRAHAN, JUAN P. and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2014. Universal Nonequilibrium Properties of Dissipative Rydberg Gases Phys. Rev. Lett.. 113, 210401
• FLINDT, C. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2013. Trajectory phase transitions, Lee-Yang zeros, and high-order cumulants in full counting statistics Physical Review Letters. 110(5), 050601
• KEYS, A.S., GARRAHAN, J.P. and CHANDLER, D., 2013. Calorimetric glass transition explained by hierarchical dynamic facilitation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(12), 4482-4487
• WHITELAM, S, TAMBLYN, I, BETON, PH and GARRAHAN, JP, 2012. Random And Ordered Phases Of Off-Lattice Rhombus Tiles Physical Review Letters. 108(3), -
• STANNARD, A., RUSSELL, J.C., BLUNT, M.O., SALESIOTIS, C., GIMENEZ-LOPEZ, M.D.C., TALEB, N., SCHRODER, M., CHAMPNESS, N.R., GARRAHAN, J.P. and BETON, P.H., 2012. Broken symmetry and the variation of critical properties in the phase behaviour of supramolecular rhombus tilings Nature Chemistry. 4(2), 112-117
• OLMOS, BEATRIZ, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2012. Facilitated Spin Models of Dissipative Quantum Glasses Phys. Rev. Lett.. 109, 020403
• GARRAHAN, J.P. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2010. Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories Physical Review Letters. 104(16), 160601
• CHANDLER, D. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2010. Dynamics on the way to forming glass: bubbles in space-time Annual Review of Physical Chemistry. 61, 191-217
• LESANOVSKY, I., OLMOS, B. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2010. Thermalization in a coherently driven ensemble of two-level systems Physical Review Letters. 105(10), 100603
• ELMATAD, YS, JACK, RL, CHANDLER, D and GARRAHAN, JP, 2010. Finite-Temperature Critical Point Of A Glass Transition Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America. 107(29), 12793-12798
• GARRAHAN, J.P., STANNARD, A., BLUNT, M.O. and BETON, P.H., 2009. Molecular random tilings as glasses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(36), 15209-15213
• 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), 1309-1313
• BLUNT, M.O., RUSSELL, J.C., GIMÉNEZ-LÓPEZ, M.D.C., GARRAHAN, J.P., LIN, X., SCHRÖDER, M., CHAMPNESS, N.R. and BETON, P.H., 2008. Random tiling and topological defects in a two-dimensional molecular network Science. 322(5904), 1077-1081
• HEDGES, LESTER O. and GARRAHAN, JUAN P., 2007. Dynamic propensity in a kinetically constrained lattice gas Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter. 19,
• GARRAHAN, J. P., JACK, R. L., LECOMTE, V., PITARD, E., VAN DUIJVENDIJK, K. and VAN WIJLAND, F., 2007. Dynamical first-order phase transition in kinetically constrained models of glasses Physical Review Letters. 98,
• HEDGES, L. O., MAIBAUM, L., CHANDLER, D., GARRAHAN, J. P. and UNIV NOTTINGHAM, SCH PHYS & ASTRON, NOTTINGHAM NG7 2RD, ENGLAND. UNIV CALIF BERKELEY, DEPT CHEM, BERKELEY, CA 94720 USA., 2007. Decoupling of exchange and persistence times in atomistic models of glass formers JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. 127(21),
• MAYER, P., LEONARD, S., BERTHIER, L., GARRAHAN, J. P. and SOLLICH, P., 2006. Activated Aging Dynamics and Negative Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratios Phys. Rev. Lett.. VOL 96(NUMB 3), 030602
• MEROLLE, M., GARRAHAN, J.P. and CHANDLER, D., 2005. Space-time thermodynamics of the glass transition Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102(31), 10837-10840
• BERTHIER, L., CHANDLER, D. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Length scale for the onset of Fickian diffusion in supercooled liquids Europhysics Letters. VOL 69(NUMB 3), 320-326
• PAN, A. C., GARRAHAN, J. P. and CHANDLER, D., 2005. Heterogeneity and growing length scales in the dynamics of kinetically constrained lattice gases in two dimensions (10 pages) Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. VOL 72(NUMB 4), 041106
• PAN, A. C., GARRAHAN, J. P. and CHANDLER, D., 2005. Decoupling of Self-Diffusion and Structural Relaxation during a Fragile-to-Strong Crossover in a Kinetically Constrained Lattice Gas ChemPhysChem. VOL 6(NUMB 9), 1783-1785
• JACK, R. L., GARRAHAN, J. P. and SHERRINGTON, D., 2005. Glassy behavior in an exactly solved spin system with a ferromagnetic transition (11 pages) Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. VOL 71(NUMB 3), 036112
• ASHTON, D.J., HEDGES, L.O. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2005. Fast simulation of facilitated spin models Journal Of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
• JACK, R. L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Caging and mosaic length scales in plaquette spin models of glasses (13 pages) Journal of Chemical Physics. VOL 123(NUMB 16), 164508
• JUNG, Y., GARRAHAN, J. P. and CHANDLER, D., 2005. Dynamical exchanges in facilitated models of supercooled liquids (10 pages) Journal of Chemical Physics. VOL 123(NUMB 8), 084509
• WHITELAM, S., BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Renormalization group study of a kinetically constrained model for strong glasses (14 pages) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. VOL 71(NUMB 2), 026128
• BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Numerical Study of a Fragile Three-Dimensional Kinetically Constrained Model JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B. VOL 109(NUMB 8), 3578-3585
• JACK, R. L., BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Static and dynamic length scales in a simple glassy plaquette model (12 pages) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. VOL 72(NUMB 1), 016103
• CHANDLER, D. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2005. Thermodynamics of coarse-grained models of supercooled liquids (5 pages) Journal of Chemical Physics. VOL 123(NUMB 4), 044511
• MAYER, P., SOLLICH, P., BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2005. Dynamic heterogeneity in the Glauber-Ising chain Journal Of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
• WHITELAM, S., BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2004. Dynamic criticality in glass-forming liquids Physical Review Letters. VOL 92(PART 18), 185705/1-4
• JUNG, Y., GARRAHAN, J. P. and CHANDLER, D., 2004. Excitation lines and the breakdown of Stokes-Einstein relations in supercooled liquids (7 pages) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. VOL 69(PART 6), 061205
• MAYER, P., BISSIG, H., BERTHIER, L., CIPELLETTI, L., GARRAHAN, J. P., SOLLICH, P. and TRAPPE, V., 2004. Heterogeneous Dynamics of Coarsening Systems Phys. Rev. Lett.. VOL 93(NUMB 11), 115701
• MAYER, P., BERTHIER, L., GARRAHAN, J. P. and SOLLICH, P., 2004. Reply to "Comment on `Fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium critical dynamics of Ising models' " (4 pages) Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. VOL 70(PART 1), 018102
• WHITELAM, S. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2004. Facilitated spin models in one dimension: A real-space renormalization group study (12 pages) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. VOL 70(PART 4), 046129
• WHITELAM, S. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2004. Geometrical Picture of Dynamical Facilitation JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B. VOL 108(PART 21), 6611-6615
• GARRAHAN, J.P. and CHANDLER, D., 2003. Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100(17), 9710-9714
• BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2003. Real space origin of temperature crossovers in supercooled liquids (13 pages) Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. VOL 68(PART 4), 041201
• BERTHIER, L. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2003. Nontopographic description of inherent structure dynamics in glassformers Journal of Chemical Physics. VOL 119(PART 8), 4367-4371
• CHANDLER, D. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2003. To move or not to move, and in what direction: The essentials of glass formers Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. 226, 50-PHYS
• GARRAHAN, J.P. and BERTHIER, L., 2003. Dynamic heterogeneities, defects, and the non-topographic view of glass transition phenomena Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. 226, 51-PHYS
• BUHOT, A., GARRAHAN, J. P. and SHERRINGTON, D., 2003. Simple strong glass forming models: mean-field solution with activation Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. VOL 36(PART 2), 307-328
• JUNG, Y.J., CHANDLER, D. and GARRAHAN, J.P., 2003. Effects of dynamical heterogeneity on translational diffusion and single-molecule studies in glass forming liquids Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. 226, 77-PHYS
• MAYER, P., BERTHIER, L., GARRAHAN, J. P. and SOLLICH, P., 2003. Fluctuation-dissipation relations in the nonequilibrium critical dynamics of Ising models (21 pages) Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. VOL 68(PART 1), 016116
• GARRAHAN, J.P. and CHANDLER, D., 2002. Geometrical explanation and scaling of dynamical heterogeneities in glass forming systems Physical Review Letters. 89(3), 035704
• GARRAHAN, J. P., 2002. Glassiness through the emergence of effective dynamical constraints in interacting systems Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. VOL 14(PART 7), 1571-1580
• BUHOT, A. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2002. Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations in the Activated Regime of Simple Strong-Glass Models Phys. Rev. Lett.. VOL 88(PART 22), 225702
• SHERRINGTON, D., MORO, E. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2002. Statistical physics of induced correlation in a simple market Physica A - Statistical and Theoretical Physics. VOL 311(NUMBER 3-4), 527-535
• SHERRINGTON, D., DAVISON, L., BUHOT, A. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2002. Glassy behaviour in simple kinetically constrained models: topological networks, lattice analogues and annihilation-diffusion Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. VOL 14(PART 7), 1673-1682
• BUHOT, A and GARRAHAN, J P, 2001. Crossover from fragile to strong glassy behavior in kinetically constrained systems. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 64(2 Pt 1), 021505
• DAVISON, L., SHERRINGTON, D., GARRAHAN, J. P. and BUHOT, A., 2001. Glassy behaviour in a 3-state spin model Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. VOL 34(PART 25), 5147-5182
• BUHOT, A. and GARRAHAN, J. P., 2001. Crossover from fragile to strong glassy behavior in kinetically constrained systems Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics. VOL 64(PART 2), 021505