%0 journal article %@ 0031-9007 %A Philippi-Kobs, A., Farhadi, A., Matheis, L., Lott, D., Chuvilin, A., Oepen, H.P. %D 2019 %J Physical Review Letters %N 13 %P 137201 %R doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.137201 %T Impact of Symmetry on Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Textured Ferromagnetic Thin Films %U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.137201 13 %X We report on the magnetoresistance of textured films consisting of 3d-ferromagnetic layers sandwiched by Pt. While the conventional cos2φ behavior of the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) is found when the magnetization M is varied in the film plane, cos2nθ contributions (2n≤6) exist for rotating M in the plane perpendicular to the current. This finding is explained by the symmetry-adapted modeling of AMR of textured films demonstrating that the cos2θ behavior cannot be used as a fingerprint for the presence of spin Hall magnetoresistance (SMR). Further, the interfacial MR contributions for Pt/Ni/Pt contradict the SMR behavior confirming the dominant role of AMR in all-metallic systems.