Quantum critical metamagnetism of Sr3Ru2O7 under hydrostatic pressure

Abstract

Using ac susceptibility, we have determined the pressure dependence of the metamagnetic critical end point temperature T* for field applied in the ab-plane in the itinerant metamagnet Sr3Ru2O7. We find that T* falls monotonically to zero as pressure increases, producing a quantum critical end point (QCEP) at Pc~13.6 kbar. New features are observed near the QCEP -- the slope of T* vs pressure changes at ~12.8 kbar, and weak subsidiary maxima appear on either side of the main susceptibility peak at pressures near Pc -- indicating that some new physics comes into play near the QCEP. Clear signatures of a nematic phase, however, that were seen in field-angle tuning of T*, are not observed. As T* is suppressed by pressure, the metamagnetic peak in the susceptibility remains sharp as a function of applied magnetic field. As a function of temperature, however, the peak becomes broad with only a very weak maximum, suggesting that, near the QCEP, the uniform magnetization density is not the order parameter for the metamagnetic transition.

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