Islands of stability of the d-wave order parameter in s-wave anisotropic superconductors

In this paper we find and present on diagrams in the coordinates of η=2t 1 /t 0 (the ratio of the second and the first nearest neighbor hopping integrals) and n (the carrier concentration) the areas of stability for the superconducting spin-singlet s- and d-wave and the spin-triplet p-wave order parameters hatching out during the phase transition from the normal to the superconducting phase. The diagrams are obtained for an anisotropic two-dimensional superconducting system with a relatively wide partially-filled conduction band. We study a tight-binding model with an attractive nearest neighbor interaction with the amplitude V 1 , and the on-site interaction (with the amplitude V 0 ) taken either as repulsive or attractive. The problem of the coexistence of the s-, p- and d-wave order parameters is addressed and solved for chosen values of the ratio V 0 /V 1 . A possible island of stability of the d-wave order parameter in the s-wave order parameter environment for a relatively strong on-site interaction is revealed. The triple points, around which the s-, d-, and p-wave order parameters coexist, are localized on diagrams. It is shown that results of the calculations performed for the two-dimensional tight-binding band model are dissimilar with some obtained within the BCS-type approximation. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2008