### Session X8: Focus Session: Novel Superconductors VII: Triplet Pairing and Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking

8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Friday, March 9, 2007
Colorado Convention Center Room: Korbel 1C

Chair: Igor Mazin, Naval Research Laboratory

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.MAR.X8.13

### Abstract: X8.00013 : Influence of Hydrostatic Pressure on Magnetoacoustic Properties of Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$.

10:48 AM–11:00 AM

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#### Authors:

O. Svitelskiy
The interest in the nanolayered Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$ crystal is due to its unconventional spin-triplet superconductivity. We used ultrasonic pulse-echo technique to obtain further insight into its electronic structure. We investigated longitudinal 30-300 MHz sound wave propagating in [100] direction of the single crystal Sr$_{2}$RuO$_{4}$, grown by floating zone technique, at temperatures down to 300 mK, in magnetic fields up to 18 Tesla, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 7.3 kbar. The decent quality of the material was confirmed by the T$_{c}$ value of 1.25 K. Under the hydrostatic pressure, T$_{c}$ and H$_{c2}$ decreased, the superconducting transition width increased, and the sound speed increased. Data analysis allowed us to separate electron and phonon contributions in the sound attenuation.