Felix Ritort

EDUCATION

1991 PhD in Physics, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain). Subject: Several Aspects on Spin Glass Theory. PhD advisors: G. Parisi and J. M. Rubí.
1989 Master in Physics (Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas) by the University of Barcelona

•  CURRENT POSITION(S)

2008 – Full professor in condensed matter physics at the University of Barcelona (Spain)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Biophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Nonequilibrium work relations for energy and information
F Ritort
arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04582 2024



Universal Cold RNA Phase Transitions
P Rissone, A Severino, I Pastor, F Ritort
arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15352 2024



Variance sum rule: proofs and solvable models
I Di Terlizzi, M Baiesi, F Ritort
arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10442 2024



Physics for understanding life
P Bassereau, A Cangelosi, J Čejkov, C Gershenson, R Goldstein, ...
EPS Grand Challenges: Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050 2024



Variance sum rule for entropy production
I Di Terlizzi, M Gironella, D Herrez-Aguilar, T Betz, F Monroy, M Baiesi, ...
Science 383 (6686), 971-976 2024



Physics for health
R Assmann, D Caldwell, G Cerullo, H Chapman, D Cialla-May, M Durante, ...
EPS Grand Challenges: Physics for Society in the Horizon 2050 2024



Viscoelastic phenotyping of red blood cells
M Gironella-Torrent, G Bergamaschi, R Sorkin, GJL Wuite, F Ritort
Biophysical Journal 2024



Unraveling RNA by Mechanical Unzipping
P Rissone, I Pastor, F Ritort
RNA Structure and Function, 73-92 2023



Detecting molecular folding from noise measurements
M Rico-Pasto, F Ritort
Biophysica 3 (3), 539-547 2023



Information-to-work conversion in single-molecule experiments: From discrete to continuous feedback
RK Schmitt, PP Potts, H Linke, J Johansson, P Samuelsson, M Rico-Pasto, ...
Physical Review E 107 (5), L052104 2023



Experimental test of Sinai’s model in DNA unzipping
C Ter Burg, P Rissone, M Rico-Pasto, F Ritort, KJ Wiese
Physical Review Letters 130 (20), 208401 2023



Roadmap for optical tweezers
G Volpe, OM Marag, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, G Pesce, AB Stilgoe, ...
Journal of Physics: Photonics 5 (2), 022501 2023



Generalized continuous Maxwell demons
JP Garrahan, F Ritort
Physical Review E 107 (3), 034101 2023



N-States Continuous Maxwell Demon
P Raux, F Ritort
Entropy 25 (2), 321 2023



Statistical Physics of Biological Molecules
S Cocco, A De Martino, A Pagnani, M Weigt, F Ritort
Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond: Replica Symmetry Breaking After 40 Years 2023



Towards a robust criterion of anomalous diffusion
V Sposini, D Krapf, E Marinari, R Sunyer, F Ritort, F Taheri, ...
Communications Physics 5 (1), 305 2022



Temperature-dependent elastic properties of DNA
M Rico-Pasto, F Ritort
Biophysical Reports 2 (3) 2022



Measurement of the specific and non-specific binding energies of Mg2+ to RNA
A Martinez-Monge, I Pastor, C Bustamante, M Manosas, F Ritort
Biophysical Journal 121 (16), 3010-3022 2022



Nucleic acid thermodynamics derived from mechanical unzipping experiments
P Rissone, F Ritort
Life 12 (7), 1089 2022



Folding Free Energy Determination of an RNA Three-Way Junction Using Fluctuation Theorems
J Aspas-Caceres, M Rico-Pasto, I Pastor, F Ritort
Entropy 24 (7), 895 2022

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

The Kuramoto model: A simple paradigm for synchronization phenomena
JA Acebrn, LL Bonilla, CJP Vicente, F Ritort, R Spigler
Reviews of modern physics 77 (1), 137 2005
Citations: 3613



Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies
D Collin, F Ritort, C Jarzynski, SB Smith, I Tinoco Jr, C Bustamante
Nature 437 (7056), 231-234 2005
Citations: 1237



Glassy dynamics of kinetically constrained models
F Ritort, P Sollich
Advances in physics 52 (4), 219-342 2003
Citations: 869



The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems
C Bustamante, J Liphardt, F Ritort
Physics today 58 (7), 43-48 2005
Citations: 847



Single-molecule experiments in biological physics: methods and applications
F Ritort
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18 (32), R531 2006
Citations: 598



Violation of the fluctuation–dissipation theorem in glassy systems: basic notions and the numerical evidence
A Crisanti, F Ritort
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 36 (21), R181 2003
Citations: 434



Bias and error in estimates of equilibrium free-energy differences from nonequilibrium measurements
J Gore, F Ritort, C Bustamante
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (22), 12564-12569 2003
Citations: 389



Single-molecule derivation of salt dependent base-pair free energies in DNA
JM Huguet, CV Bizarro, N Forns, SB Smith, C Bustamante, F Ritort
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (35), 15431-15436 2010
Citations: 282



Experimental test of Hatano and Sasa's nonequilibrium steady-state equality
EH Trepagnier, C Jarzynski, F Ritort, GE Crooks, CJ Bustamante, ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (42), 15038-15041 2004
Citations: 267



Replica field theory for deterministic models. II. A non-random spin glass with glassy behaviour
E Marinari, G Parisi, F Ritort
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 27 (23), 7647 1994
Citations: 253



Nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems: From physics to biology
F Ritort
Advances in chemical physics 137, 31 2008
Citations: 247



Finite-time generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation
P Pietzonka, F Ritort, U Seifert
Physical Review E 96 (1), 012101 2017
Citations: 217



Force unfolding kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. I. Effects of experimental variables on measured results
JD Wen, M Manosas, PTX Li, SB Smith, C Bustamante, F Ritort, I Tinoco
Biophysical journal 92 (9), 2996-3009 2007
Citations: 195



Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial
J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazz, IP Castillo, LP Garca, ...
Advances in Optics and Photonics 13 (1), 74-241 2021
Citations: 190



Glassiness in a model without energy barriers
F Ritort
Physical review letters 75 (6), 1190 1995
Citations: 179



Numerical evidence for spontaneously broken replica symmetry in 3D spin glasses
E Marinari, G Parisi, J Ruiz-Lorenzo, F Ritort
Physical review letters 76 (5), 843 1996
Citations: 176



Replica field theory for deterministic models: I. Binary sequences with low autocorrelation
E Marinari, G Parisi, F Ritort
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 27 (23), 7615 1994
Citations: 176



Elastic properties and secondary structure formation of single-stranded DNA at monovalent and divalent salt conditions
A Bosco, J Camunas-Soler, F Ritort
Nucleic acids research 42 (3), 2064-2074 2014
Citations: 172



Experimental free-energy measurements of kinetic molecular states using fluctuation theorems
A Alemany, A Mossa, I Junier, F Ritort
Nature Physics 8 (9), 688-694 2012
Citations: 142



A two-state kinetic model for the unfolding of single molecules by mechanical force
F Ritort, C Bustamante, I Tinoco Jr
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (21), 13544-13548 2002
Citations: 138