The dynamics of particles in the field of a wave packet excited in a plasma is considered. The conditions are found under which such dynamics is regular, and when it becomes chaotic. It was found that the well-known (phenomenological) criterion for the emergence of dynamic chaos − the criterion for overlapping Chirikov nonlinear resonances − requires careful use.
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