title: Many-body localization in dipolar systems.
abstract: Systems of strongly interacting dipoles offer an attractive platform to study many-body localized phases, owing to their long coherence times and strong interactions. We explore conditions under which such localized phases persist in the presence of power-law interactions and supplement our analytic treatment with numerical evidence of localized states in one dimension. We propose and analyze several experimental systems that can be used to observe and probe such states, including ultracold polar molecules and solid-state magnetic spin impurities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: N Y
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA and ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Laumann
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gopalakrishnan
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA and ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knap
authors.affiliation: The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Demler
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Lukin