Abstract
The formation and control of stable multiphase space hole structures and the associated Bernstein–Greene–Kruskal modes in trapped pure ion plasmas driven by an oscillating, chirped frequency perturbation are considered. The holes are formed by passing kinetic bounce resonances ωd=nπu∕L in the system, u and L are the longitudinal velocity of the plasma species and the length of the trap, and n is the multiplicity of the resonance (the number of the phase space holes). An adiabatic, quasi-one-dimensional water bag model of this excitation for an initially flat-top distribution of the ions in the trap is suggested, based on the isomorphism with a related problem in infinite quasineutral plasmas. A multiwater bag approach allows us to generalize the theory to other initial distributions. Numerical simulations yield a very good agreement with the theory until the coherent phase space structure is destroyed due to the resonance overlap when the decreasing driving frequency passes a critical value estimated within the water bag theory.
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