Abstract
The formation and control of strongly nonlinear standing plasma waves (SPWs) from a trivial equilibrium by a chirped frequency drive are discussed. If the drive amplitude exceeds a threshold, after passage through the linear resonance in this system, the excited wave preserves the phase locking with the drive, yielding a controlled growth of the wave amplitude. We illustrate these autoresonant waves via Vlasov–Poisson simulations, showing the formation of sharply peaked excitations with local electron density maxima significantly exceeding the unperturbed plasma density. The Whitham averaged variational approach applied to a simplified water bag model yields the weakly nonlinear evolution of the autoresonant SPWs and the autoresonance threshold. If the chirped driving frequency approaches some constant level, the driven SPW saturates at a target amplitude, avoiding the kinetic wave breaking.
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