title: Autoresonant phase-space holes in plasmas.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Friedland
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Khain
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Shagalov