Asymptotic stability in the energy space for dark solitons of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Fabrice Béthuel, Philippe Gravejat, Didier Smets

Published 2012-12-20, updated 2013-07-10Version 2

We pursue our work on the dynamical stability of dark solitons for the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In this paper, we prove their asymptotic stability under small perturbations in the energy space. In particular, our results do not require smallness in some weighted spaces or a priori spectral assumptions. Our strategy is reminiscent of the one used by Martel and Merle in various works regarding generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations. The important feature of our contribution is related to the fact that while Korteweg-de Vries equations possess unidirectional dispersion, Schr\"odinger equations do not.