Self-assembly is a ubiquitous process in synthetic and biological systems, broadly defined
as the spontaneous organization of multiple subunits (macromolecules, particles, etc.) into …

The pressure tensor (equivalent to the negative stress tensor) at both microscopic and
macroscopic levels is fundamental to many aspects of engineering and science, including …

Monte Carlo simulations of homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in Ising/lattice gas
models are reviewed with an emphasis on the general insight gained on the mechanisms by …

Some liquids, if cooled rapidly enough to avoid crystallization, can be frozen into a
nonergodic glassy state. The tendency for a material to form a glass when quenched is …

The application of the Young–Laplace equation to a solid–liquid interface is considered.
Computer simulations show that the pressure inside a solid cluster of hard spheres is …

Although the freezing of liquids and melting of crystals are fundamental for many areas of
the sciences, even simple properties like the temperature–pressure relation along the …

Nonaligning self-propelled particles with purely repulsive excluded volume interactions
undergo athermal motility-induced phase separation into a dilute gas and a dense cluster …

A striking feature of the collective behavior of spherical microswimmers is that for sufficiently
strong self-propulsion they phase-separate into a dense cluster coexisting with a low-density …

Simulations are widely used to study nucleation in first order phase transitions due to the fact
that they have access to the relevant length and time scales. However, simulations face the …

In this work, we study by means of simulations of hard spheres the equilibrium between a
spherical solid cluster and the fluid. In the NVT ensemble, we observe stable/metastable …