The paper presents a probabilistic neural surrogate for scrape‑off‑layer (SOL) plasma simulations in tokamaks. By mapping the curvilinear SOLPS‑ITER mesh to three fixed‑size image tensors, the authors preserve geometric adjacency and enable a convolutional network to process the mesh without loss of information. A conditional flow‑matching model is trained on this representation, producing efficient, scalable predictions that capture multiple plausible outcomes—such as distinct hot and cold modes—near the divertor detachment transition and correctly recover known bifurcations in synthetic data.
By Gabriele Gianuzzo, Stefan Dasbach, Fleur Hendriks, Sven Wiesen, Vlado Menkovski
arXiv:2607. 21407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The boundary and divertor plasma govern how a tokamak exhausts power and particles, setting heat fluxes, target conditions, and the onset of detachment.
By Abdourahmane Diaw, Sebastian De Pascuale, Jae-Sun Park, Ivan Paradela Perez, Jeremy D. Lore, Stefan Dasbach
arXiv:2606. 15512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time reconstruction of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria is essential for plasma shaping, stability assessment and feedback control in magnetic confinement fusion.
By Jay Phil Yoo, William Howes, Yashika Ghai, Kazuma Kobayashi, Souvik Chakraborty, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv:2602. 15084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TokaMind, to our knowledge the first open-source foundation model for tokamak plasma dynamics, based on a Multi-Modal Transformer (MMT) and pretrained on heterogeneous diagnostics from the publicly available MAST dataset.
By Tobia Boschi, Andrea Loreti, Nicola C. Amorisco, Rodrigo H. Ordonez-Hurtado, C\'ecile Rousseau, George K. Holt, Eszter Sz\'ekely, Alexander Whittle, Samuel Jackson, Adriano Agnello, Stanislas Pamela, Alessandra Pascale, Robert Akers, Juan Bernabe Moreno, Vassil Alexandrov, Mykhaylo Zayats
arXiv:2608.23217v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Fast and reliable plasma equilibrium prediction is essential for real-time tokamak operation and control, but conventional Grad-Shafranov (GS) solver...
By Guoyang Shi, Zitong Zhang, Siqi Ding, Jianguo Chen, Yapeng Zhang, Jiayi Zhi, Hanyue Zhao, Tianyuan Liu
Fast and reliable plasma equilibrium prediction is essential for real-time tokamak operation and control, but conventional Grad-Shafranov (GS) solvers are often too costly for real-time deployment. We...
arXiv:2602. 10132v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Development and operation of commercially viable fusion energy reactors such as tokamaks require accurate predictions of plasma dynamics from sparse, noisy, and incomplete sensors readings.
By C\'ecile Rousseau, Samuel Jackson, Rodrigo H. Ordonez-Hurtado, Nicola C. Amorisco, Tobia Boschi, George K. Holt, Andrea Loreti, Eszter Sz\'ekely, Alexander Whittle, Adriano Agnello, Stanislas Pamela, Alessandra Pascale, Robert Akers, Juan Bernabe Moreno, Sue Thorne, Mykhaylo Zayats
arXiv:2607. 22704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nuclear fusion has made significant progress in recent years and is expected to become one of the most important pathways to addressing global energy challenges.
By Xiao Wang, Hao Si, Qiang Chen, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Beihe Zhang, Jianhua Yang, Qingquan Yang, Dengdi Sun, Wanli Lyu, Guosheng Xu, Jin Tang
arXiv:2511. 22486v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The requirement for large-scale global simulations of plasma is an ongoing challenge in both space and laboratory plasma physics.
By Samuel Burles, Enrico Camporeale
GyroSwin is a scalable 5‑dimensional neural surrogate that models nonlinear gyrokinetic plasma turbulence, a key challenge for nuclear fusion research. It extends Vision Transformers to 5D, incorporates cross‑attention and latent 3D↔5D interactions, and uses channelwise mode separation inspired by nonlinear physics. The model outperforms traditional reduced numerics in heat‑flux prediction, captures turbulent energy cascades, and cuts the computational cost of full gyrokinetic simulations by three orders of magnitude while remaining physically verifiable.
By Fabian Paischer, Gianluca Galletti, William Hornsby, Paul Setinek, Lorenzo Zanisi, Naomi Carey, Stanislas Pamela, Johannes Brandstetter
arXiv:2608. 16519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatially resolved EEDFs/IEDFs provide essential kinetic information about low-temperature plasmas (LTPs) and play a central role in determining transport, chemical reaction rates, and plasma surface interactions.
By Libin Varghese, Kaushik Prajapati, Bhaskar Chaudhury
arXiv:2606. 00937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators provide fast surrogate models for PDE simulations, but standard architectures often treat geometry and discretization as secondary to field data.
By Lennon J. Shikhman, Shane Gilbertie