Orbital stability of the black soliton for the quintic Gross–Pitaevskii equation

Abstract

In this work, a proof of the orbital stability of the black soliton solution of the quintic Gross–Pitaevskii equation in one spatial dimension is obtained. We first build and show explicitly black and dark soliton solutions and we prove that the corresponding Ginzburg–Landau energy is coercive around them by using some orthogonality conditions related to perturbations of the black and dark solitons. The existence of suitable perturbations around black and dark solitons satisfying the required orthogonality conditions is deduced from an implicit function theorem. In fact, these perturbations involve dark solitons with sufficiently small speeds and some proportionality factors arising from the explicit expression of their spatial derivative.