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We study a Riemannian metric on the cone of symmetric positive-definite matrices obtained from the Hessian of the power potential function (1 − det(X))/β. We give explicit expressions for the geodesics and distance function, under suitable conditions. In the scalar case, the geodesic between two positive numbers coincides with a weighted power mean, while for matrices of size at least two it yields a notion of weighted power mean different from the ones given in the literature. As β tends to zero, the power potential converges to the logarithmic potential, that yields a wellknown metric associated with the matrix geometric mean; we show that the geodesic and the distance associated with the power potential converge to the weighted matrix geometric mean and the distance associated with the logarithmic potential, respectively.