We review the depinning and nonequilibrium phases of collectively interacting particle
systems driven over random or periodic substrates. This type of system is relevant to vortices …

We review recent progress in the understanding of phase transitions and critical
phenomena, obtained by means of numerical simulations of the early dynamic evolution of …

Arguably, the main challenge of nucleation theory is to accurately evaluate the work of
formation of a critical embryo in the new phase, which governs the nucleation rate. In …

The description of metastable fluids, those in local but not global equilibrium, remains an
important problem of thermodynamics, and it is crucial for many industrial applications and …

We study the off-equilibrium behavior of systems with short-range interactions, slowly driven
across a thermal first-order transition, where the equilibrium dynamics is exponentially slow …

This report is concerned with the relevance of the microscopic rules that implement
individual neuronal activation, in determining the collective dynamics, under variations of the …

We study the geometric properties of polymixtures after a sudden quench in temperature.
We mimic these systems with the q-states Potts model on a square lattice with and without …

We study the short-time dynamics (STD) of the Vicsek model (VM) with vector noise. The
study of STD has proved to be very useful in the determination of the critical point, critical …

We implemented a GPU-based parallel code to perform Monte Carlo simulations of the two-
dimensional q-state Potts model. The algorithm is based on a checkerboard update scheme …

We study critical properties of the relaxation time at a threshold point in switching processes
between bistable states under change in external fields. In particular, we investigate the …