Evolution of Fermi-liquid interactions in Sr2RuO4 under pressure

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Oct 14;89(16):166402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.166402. Epub 2002 Sep 27.

Abstract

We have measured the temperature and field dependence of the resistivity of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 at pressures up to 3.3 GPa. Using the Shubnikov-de Haas effect, we find that the Fermi surface sheet believed to be primarily responsible for superconductivity becomes more two-dimensional with increasing pressure, a surprising result that is, however, consistent with a recent model of orbital-dependent superconductivity in this system. Many-body enhancements and the superconducting transition temperature all fall gradually with increasing pressure, contrary to previous suggestions of a ferromagnetic quantum critical point at approximately 3 GPa.