Dr. Kai Litzius

X-ray Spectro-Microscopy
Experimental Physics V
Phone: +49 821 598 - 3108
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Room: 414 (S)
Address: Universitätsstraße 1 (Physik Süd), 86159 Augsburg

Workplaces:

2022−                 Reserach Scientist - University of Augsburg

2021−2022       Postdoctoral researcher - Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart

2019−2020       Postdoctoral researcher − Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

 

Research Foci:

Magnetism and 2D materials:

  • Methods for ultrahigh resolution (spatial and temporal) x-ray imaging with surface and transmission sensitivity, under ambient and cryogenic conditions
  • Physics of topological magnetic states (stability and dynamics)
  • Fabrication of devices from two dimensional van-der-Waals systems
  • Current induced effects in thin film heterostructures
  • Micromagnetic modeling and code development

 

Publications

2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

2026

L.‐M. Kern, Kai Litzius, V. Deinhart, M. Schneider, C. Klose, K. Gerlinger, R. Battistelli, D. Metternich, D. Engel, C. M. Günther, M.‐J. Huang, K. Höflich, Felix Büttner, S. Eisebitt und B. Pfau
Emergent chaos‐like dynamics of spin–orbit‐torque‐driven magnetic transitions

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Shiyu Zhou, Kai Litzius, Felix Büttner und Lucas Caretta
Statistical signatures of topology and chirality in the annihilation field distributions of magnetic thin films

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Tobias Weirauch, Eva Brügger, Kai Litzius, Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild, Silvia M. Würstle und Simone C. Lieberknecht-Jouy
Targeting nontuberculous mycobacteria with phages: optimization of in vitro host range assays

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2025

Daniel Metternich, Kai Litzius, Sebastian Wintz, Kathinka Gerlinger, Sascha Petz, Dieter Engel, Themistoklis Sidiropoulos, Riccardo Battistelli, Felix Steinbach, Markus Weigand, Steffen Wittrock, Clemens von Korff Schmising und Felix Büttner
Defects in magnetic domain walls after single-shot all-optical switching

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2024

Riccardo Battistelli, Daniel Metternich, Michael Schneider, Lisa-Marie Kern, Kai Litzius, Josefin Fuchs, Christopher Klose, Kathinka Gerlinger, Kai Bagschik, Christian M. Günther, Dieter Engel, Claus Ropers, Stefan Eisebitt, Bastian Pfau, Felix Büttner und Sergey Zayko
Coherent x-ray magnetic imaging with 5 nm resolution

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2023

Christopher Klose, Felix Büttner, Wen Hu, Claudio Mazzoli, Kai Litzius, Riccardo Battistelli, Sergey Zayko, Ivan Lemesh, Jason M. Bartell, Mantao Huang, Christian M. Günther, Michael Schneider, Andi Barbour, Stuart B. Wilkins, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Stefan Eisebitt und Bastian Pfau
Coherent correlation imaging for resolving fluctuating states of matter

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Frank Schulz, Kai Litzius, Lukas Powalla, Max T. Birch, Rodolfo A. Gallardo, Sayooj Satheesh, Markus Weigand, Tanja Scholz, Bettina V. Lotsch, Gisela Schütz, Marko Burghard und Sebastian Wintz
Direct observation of propagating spin waves in the 2D van der Waals ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2

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L. Powalla, M. T. Birch, Kai Litzius, S. Wintz, S. Satheesh, M. Weigand, E. Goering, G. Schütz und M. Burghard
Skyrmion and skyrmionium formation in the two-dimensional magnet Cr2⁢Ge2⁢Te6

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Jonas J. Joos, Pedram Bassirian, Pieter Gypens, Jeroen Mulkers, Kai Litzius, Bartel Van Waeyenberge und Jonathan Leliaert
Tutorial: Simulating modern magnetic material systems in mumax3

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2022

P. Bassirian, T. Hesjedal, S. S. P. Parkin und Kai Litzius
Breathing mode dynamics of coupled three-dimensional chiral bobbers

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M. T. Birch, L. Powalla, S. Wintz, O. Hovorka, Kai Litzius, J. C. Loudon, L. A. Turnbull, V. Nehruji, K. Son, C. Bubeck, T. G. Rauch, M. Weigand, E. Goering, M. Burghard und G. Schütz
History-dependent domain and skyrmion formation in 2D van der Waals magnet Fe3GeTe2

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Angela Wittmann, Olena Gomonay, Kai Litzius, Allison Kaczmarek, Alexander E. Kossak, Daniel Wolf, Axel Lubk, Tyler N. Johnson, Elizaveta A. Tremsina, Alexandra Churikova, Felix Büttner, Sebastian Wintz, Mohamad-Assaad Mawass, Markus Weigand, Florian Kronast, Larry Scipioni, Adam Shepard, Ty Newhouse-Illige, James A. Greer, Gisela Schütz, Norman O. Birge und Geoffrey S. D. Beach
Role of substrate clamping on anisotropy and domain structure in the canted antiferromagnet α-Fe2O3

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L.-M. Kern, B. Pfau, M. Schneider, K. Gerlinger, V. Deinhart, S. Wittrock, T. Sidiropoulos, D. Engel, I. Will, C. M. Günther, Kai Litzius, S. Wintz, M. Weigand, Felix Büttner und S. Eisebitt
Tailoring optical excitation to control magnetic skyrmion nucleation

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M. T. Birch, D. Cortés-Ortuño, Kai Litzius, S. Wintz, F. Schulz, M. Weigand, A. Štefančič, D. A. Mayoh, G. Balakrishnan, P. D. Hatton und G. Schütz
Toggle-like current-induced Bloch point dynamics of 3D skyrmion strings in a room temperature nanowire

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2021

Nico Kerber, Markus Weißenhofer, Klaus Raab, Kai Litzius, Jakub Zázvorka, Ulrich Nowak und Mathias Kläui
Anisotropic skyrmion diffusion controlled by magnetic-field-induced symmetry breaking

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Kathinka Gerlinger, Bastian Pfau, Felix Büttner, Michael Schneider, Lisa-Marie Kern, Josefin Fuchs, Dieter Engel, Christian M. Günther, Mantao Huang, Ivan Lemesh, Lucas Caretta, Alexandra Churikova, Piet Hessing, Christopher Klose, Christian Strüber, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Siying Huang, Angela Wittmann, Kai Litzius, Daniel Metternich, Riccardo Battistelli, Kai Bagschik, Alexandr Sadovnikov, Geoffrey S. D. Beach und Stefan Eisebitt
Application concepts for ultrafast laser-induced skyrmion creation and annihilation

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2020

Nico Kerber, Dmitriy Ksenzov, Frank Freimuth, Flavio Capotondi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Ignacio Lopez-Quintas, Boris Seng, Joel Cramer, Kai Litzius, Daniel Lacour, Hartmut Zabel, Yuriy Mokrousov, Mathias Kläui und Christian Gutt
Faster chiral versus collinear magnetic order recovery after optical excitation revealed by femtosecond XUV scattering

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Felix Büttner, Mohamad A. Mawass, Jackson Bauer, Ethan Rosenberg, Lucas Caretta, Can Onur Avci, Joachim Gräfe, Simone Finizio, C. A. F. Vaz, Nina Novakovic, Markus Weigand, Kai Litzius, Johannes Förster, Nick Träger, Felix Groß, Daniel Suzuki, Mantao Huang, Jason Bartell, Florian Kronast, Jörg Raabe, Gisela Schütz, Caroline A. Ross und Geoffrey S. D. Beach
Thermal nucleation and high-resolution imaging of submicrometer magnetic bubbles in thin thulium iron garnet films with perpendicular anisotropy

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2019

M. Filianina, L. Baldrati, T. Hajiri, Kai Litzius, M. Foerster, L. Aballe und M. Kläui
Piezo-electrical control of gyration dynamics of magnetic vortices

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Robert M. Reeve, André Loescher, Hamidreza Kazemi, Bertrand Dupé, Mohamad-Assaad Mawass, Thomas Winkler, Daniel Schönke, Jun Miao, Kai Litzius, Nicholas Sedlmayr, Imke Schneider, Jairo Sinova, Sebastian Eggert und Mathias Kläui
Scaling of intrinsic domain wall magnetoresistance with confinement in electromigrated nanocontacts

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Jakub Zázvorka, Florian Jakobs, Daniel Heinze, Niklas Keil, Sascha Kromin, Samridh Jaiswal, Kai Litzius, Gerhard Jakob, Peter Virnau, Daniele Pinna, Karin Everschor-Sitte, Levente Rózsa, Andreas Donges, Ulrich Nowak und Mathias Kläui
Thermal skyrmion diffusion used in a reshuffler device

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2018

Ivan Lemesh, Kai Litzius, Marie Böttcher, Pedram Bassirian, Nico Kerber, Daniel Heinze, Jakub Zázvorka, Felix Büttner, Lucas Caretta, Maxwell Mann, Markus Weigand, Simone Finizio, Jörg Raabe, Mi‐Young Im, Hermann Stoll, Gisela Schütz, Bertrand Dupé, Mathias Kläui und Geoffrey S. D. Beach
Current‐induced skyrmion generation through morphological thermal transitions in chiral ferromagnetic heterostructures

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Diana Prychynenko, Matthias Sitte, Kai Litzius, Benjamin Krüger, George Bourianoff, Mathias Kläui, Jairo Sinova und Karin Everschor-Sitte
Magnetic skyrmion as a nonlinear resistive element: a potential building block for reservoir computing

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2017

S. Jaiswal, Kai Litzius, I. Lemesh, Felix Büttner, S. Finizio, J. Raabe, M. Weigand, K. Lee, J. Langer, B. Ocker, G. Jakob, G. S. D. Beach und M. Kläui
Investigation of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and room temperature skyrmions in W/CoFeB/MgO thin films and microwires

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Andrea De Lucia, Kai Litzius, Benjamin Krüger, Oleg A. Tretiakov und Mathias Kläui
Multiscale simulations of topological transformations in magnetic-skyrmion spin structures

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2016

Seonghoon Woo, Kai Litzius, Benjamin Krüger, Mi-Young Im, Lucas Caretta, Kornel Richter, Maxwell Mann, Andrea Krone, Robert M. Reeve, Markus Weigand, Parnika Agrawal, Ivan Lemesh, Mohamad-Assaad Mawass, Peter Fischer, Mathias Kläui und Geoffrey S. D. Beach
Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets

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Kai Litzius, Ivan Lemesh, Benjamin Krüger, Pedram Bassirian, Lucas Caretta, Kornel Richter, Felix Büttner, Koji Sato, Oleg A. Tretiakov, Johannes Förster, Robert M. Reeve, Markus Weigand, Iuliia Bykova, Hermann Stoll, Gisela Schütz, Geoffrey S. D. Beach und Mathias Kläui
Skyrmion Hall effect revealed by direct time-resolved X-ray microscopy

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2015

S. Finizio, A. Kronenberg, M. Vafaee, M. Foerster, Kai Litzius, A. de Lucia, T. O. Menteş, L. Aballe, B. Krüger, M. Jourdan und M. Kläui
Magnetic configurations in nanostructured Co2MnGa thin film elements

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