Autoresonant phase-space holes in plasmas.
Electron phase-space holes are formed and controlled in a plasma by adiabatic nonlinear phase locking (autoresonance) with a chirped frequency driving wave. The process has a threshold on the driving amplitude and involves dragging a void region in phase space into the bulk of the distribution via persistent Cherenkov-type resonance.
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Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
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Shagalov
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