Quantum critical metamagnetism of Sr3Ru2O7 under hydrostatic pressure

Using ac susceptibility, we have determined the pressure dependence of the metamagnetic critical endpoint temperature T⊃* for a field applied in the ab plane in the itinerant metamagnet Sr3Ru2O 7. We find that T⊃* falls monotonically to zero as pressure increases, producing a quantum critical endpoint (QCEP) at P c~13.6±0.2kbar. New features are observed near the QCEP-the slope of T⊃* versus 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 an 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. © 2011 American Physical Society.