  We study the spectral stability of solitary wave solutions to the nonlinear
Dirac equation in one dimension. We focus on the Dirac equation with cubic
nonlinearity, known as the Soler model in (1+1) dimensions and also as the
massive Gross-Neveu model. Presented numerical computations of the spectrum of
linearization at a solitary wave show that the solitary waves are spectrally
stable. We corroborate our results by finding explicit expressions for several
of the eigenfunctions. Some of the analytic results hold for the nonlinear
Dirac equation with generic nonlinearity.
