The study of phase transitions has played a central role in the study of condensed matter. Since the first applications of
molecular simulations, which provided some of the first evidence in support of a freezing transition in hardsphere systems,
to contemporary research on complex systems, including polymers, proteins, or liquid crystals, to name a few, molecular simulations
are increasingly providing a standard against which to measure the validity of theoretical predictions or phenomenological
explanations of experimentally observed phenomena.