Douglas J Ashton

Department of Physics
University of Bath
BA2 7AY
United Kingdom

Member of Nigel Wilding's research group.

Research Interests

History

  • 2012 - present: Postdoc, University of Bath
  • 2011 - 2012: Postdoc, Debye institue, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2008 - 2011: Postdoc, University of Bath, UK
  • Oct-Dec 2007: Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, USA
  • Sep 2004 - 2008: PhD, University of Nottingham, UK (thesis)
  • 2000 - 04: MPhys, Balliol College, Oxford University, UK

Publications

  • Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key
    Douglas J. Ashton, Robert L. Jack, Nigel B. Wilding
    arXiv.org/1304.3675
  • Depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures: Comparison of simulation results with theory
    Douglas J. Ashton, Nigel B. Wilding, Roland Roth, Robert Evans
    Phys. Rev. E 84, 061136 (2011)(pdf)
  • Monte Carlo cluster algorithm for fluid phase transitions in highly size-asymmetrical binary mixtures
    Douglas J. Ashton, Jiwen Liu, Erik Luijten, Nigel B. Wilding,
    J. Chem. Phys. 133, 194102 (2010) (pdf)
    Selected as a research highlight.
  • Grand canonical simulation of phase behaviour in highly size-asymmetrical binary fluids
    Douglas J. Ashton, Nigel B. Wilding (invited article),
    Mol. Phys. 109, 7, 999 (2011) (pdf)
  • Fluid phase coexistence and critical behaviour from simulations in the restricted Gibbs ensemble
    Douglas J. Ashton, Nigel B. Wilding, Peter Sollich,
    J. Chem. Phys. 132, 074111 (2010) (pdf)
  • Relationship between vibrations and dynamical heterogeneity in a model glass former: extended soft modes but local relaxation
    Douglas J. Ashton, Juan P. Garrahan,
    Eur. Phys. J. E 30, 303-307(2009) (pdf)
  • Interplay between function and structure in complex networks
    T.C. Jarrett, D.J. Ashton, Mark Fricker and N.F. Johnson,
    Phys. Rev. E74, 026116 (2006). (pdf)
  • Fast Simulation of Facilitated Spin Models
    Douglas. J. Ashton, Lester. O. Hedges and Juan. P. Garrahan,
    J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P12010. (pdf)
  • Conference version of above
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 40 99-104 (2006)
  • Effect of congestion costs on the shortest paths through complex networks
    D.J. Ashton, T.C. Jarret N.F. Johnson,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 058701 (2005). (pdf)
  • If all roads lead to Rome expect long delays. New Scientist, 29th January 2005, p12
    Johnson, Ashton, Jarrett, by Kate Ravilious

Animations

Blog

Kinetically Constrained is a blog on statistical mechanics related topics that I'm playing with. It's external to the university and doesn't reflect their views etc etc. You can see some scale invariance demonstrations there, which I'm going to put on this site shortly as well.

Buzz

I'm playing with Google's new service to collect together all my physics activities. See http://www.google.com/profiles/douglas.j.ashton

Links to some coworkers