Douglas Ashton

Publications.

• Porous liquid phases for indented colloids with depletion interactions
  Douglas J. Ashton, Robert L. Jack, Nigel B. Wilding.
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 237801 (2015) (pdf + si)
• Shape-sensitive crystallization in colloidal superball fluids
  Laura Rossi, Vishal Soni, Douglas J. Ashton, David J. Pine, Albert P. Philipse, Paul M. Chaikin, Marjolein Dijkstra, Stefano Sacanna, and William T. M. Irvine PNAS 112 (17) 5286-5290
• Self-assembly and crystallisation of indented colloids at a planar wall
  Douglas J. Ashton, Samantha J. Ivell, Roel P. Dullens, Robert L. Jack, Nigel B. Wilding, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts
  arXiv:1412.1596
• Characterizing the variation of propagation constants in multicore fiber
  Peter J. Mosley, Itandehui Gris-Sánchez, James M. Stone, Robert J. A. Francis-Jones, Douglas J. Ashton, and Tim A. Birks
  Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 21, pp. 25689-25699 (2014)
• Three-body effects in complex fluids: virial coefficients from simulation finite-size effects
  Douglas J. Ashton, Nigel B. Wilding
  J. Chem. Phys. 140, 244118 (2014) (pdf).
• Quantifying the effects of neglecting many-body interactions in coarse-grained models of complex fluids
  Douglas J. Ashton, Nigel B. Wilding
  Phys. Rev. E 89, 031301(R) (2014) arXiv pdf. (Chosen as research highlight)
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• Monte Carlo methods for estimating depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetrical hard sphere mixtures
  Douglas J. Ashton, Vicente Sanchez-Gil, Nigel B. Wilding
  JCP, 139, 144102 (2013).
• Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key
  Douglas J. Ashton, Robert L. Jack, Nigel B. Wilding
  Soft Matter, 2013, 9 (40), 9661 - 9666(pdf)
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• 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) (arXiv 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). (arXiv pdf)
• Fast Simulation of Facilitated Spin Models
  Douglas. J. Ashton, Lester. O. Hedges and Juan. P. Garrahan,
  J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P12010. (arXiv 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). (arXiv pdf)
• If all roads lead to Rome expect long delays. New Scientist, 29th January 2005, p12
  Johnson, Ashton, Jarrett, by Kate Ravilious

Dissertations.

• PhD Thesis: Fast and slow dynamics in kinetically constrained models of glasses (pdf)
• Mphys dissertation: How Small is your Social Life? Exactly Solvable Small-World Networks (pdf)