Learn the Dynamics, Enforce the Physics: Generative Latent Operators for High-Dimensional Beam Evolution
Abstract
Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation is indispensable for modeling beam dynamics in particle accelerators, but its computational cost limits many-query workflows, such as configuration exploration, virtual diagnostics, and controller design. We introduce *GLOBE*, a physics-constrained **G**enerative **L**atent **O**perator for **B**eam **E**volution, modeling the nonlinear, control-dependent, multiscale evolution of 3D beam-field dynamics covering spatial cells. GLOBE compresses beam-field states into a compact latent space and factors their evolution into two components. A control-conditioned neural operator learns the dominant dynamics, while an amplitude-normalized generative model captures the residual distribution, recovering fine-scale structures and conditional variations. GLOBE enforces field constraints by regime-specific, parameter-free operators: a Poisson solve reconstructs the electric field in the electrostatic regime, and a spectral projection imposes Gauss's law and a divergence-free magnetic field in the electromagnetic regime. On two high-resolution 3D particle-accelerator benchmarks, bunched-beam transport and plasma-wakefield acceleration, GLOBE lowers relative- error by 9% and 13%, low-frequency spectral error by 69% and 51%, and mid-frequency spectral error by 54% and 20% relative to the strongest baseline (DPOT), satisfies field constraints, and reduces hours of PIC simulation to a minute per rollout.
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