Symmetry Breaking by Interfacial Dead Layers: Observation of Forbidden Self-Induced Spin-Orbit Torque in Symmetric Ferromagnets

Athira Ravindran K, Raghvendra Posti, Manish Kumar Mohanta +8

Conventionally, spin-orbit torques (SOTs) in ferromagnets require heavy-metal layers or engineered structural asymmetry to break inversion symmetry. In this work, we report the obs…