Magnetic Resonance Particle Tracking

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Main Authors: Suter, Mathieu, Metzger, Jens P., Port, Andreas, Müller, Christoph R., Pruessmann, Klaas P.
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Published: 2025
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author Suter, Mathieu
Metzger, Jens P.
Port, Andreas
Müller, Christoph R.
Pruessmann, Klaas P.
author_facet Suter, Mathieu
Metzger, Jens P.
Port, Andreas
Müller, Christoph R.
Pruessmann, Klaas P.
contents Granular materials such as gravel, cereals, or pellets, are ubiquitous in nature, daily life, and industry. While sharing some characteristics with gases, liquids, and solids, granular matter exhibits a wealth of phenomena that defy these analogies and are yet to be fully understood. Advancing granular physics requires experimental observation at the level of individual particles and over a wide range of dynamics. Specifically, it calls for the ability to track large numbers of particles simultaneously, in three dimensions (3D), and with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here, we introduce magnetic resonance particle tracking (MRPT) and show it to achieve such recording with resolution on the scale of micrometers and milliseconds. Enabled by MRPT, we report the direct study of granular glassy dynamics in 3D. Tracking a vibrated granular system over six temporal orders of magnitude revealed dynamical heterogeneities, two-step relaxation, and structural memory closely akin to 3D glass formation in supercooled liquids and colloids. These findings illustrate broad prospective utility of MRPT in advancing the exploration, theory, and numerical models of granular matter.
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spellingShingle Magnetic Resonance Particle Tracking
Suter, Mathieu
Metzger, Jens P.
Port, Andreas
Müller, Christoph R.
Pruessmann, Klaas P.
Soft Condensed Matter
Granular materials such as gravel, cereals, or pellets, are ubiquitous in nature, daily life, and industry. While sharing some characteristics with gases, liquids, and solids, granular matter exhibits a wealth of phenomena that defy these analogies and are yet to be fully understood. Advancing granular physics requires experimental observation at the level of individual particles and over a wide range of dynamics. Specifically, it calls for the ability to track large numbers of particles simultaneously, in three dimensions (3D), and with high spatial and temporal resolution. Here, we introduce magnetic resonance particle tracking (MRPT) and show it to achieve such recording with resolution on the scale of micrometers and milliseconds. Enabled by MRPT, we report the direct study of granular glassy dynamics in 3D. Tracking a vibrated granular system over six temporal orders of magnitude revealed dynamical heterogeneities, two-step relaxation, and structural memory closely akin to 3D glass formation in supercooled liquids and colloids. These findings illustrate broad prospective utility of MRPT in advancing the exploration, theory, and numerical models of granular matter.
title Magnetic Resonance Particle Tracking
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22425