... because they cannot readily be measured in the solid state or because they involve aspects (such as absorption, amplification, or bosonic statistics) that do not apply to electrons. The article first considers applications of RMT to classical optics, including optical speckle and coherent backscattering...

..., a general microscopic theory of transport in disordered systems is presented, with emphasis on experimental realizations with cold atomic gases. Simple examples are the propagation of light in a disordered medium, for which we show results from a live coherent backscattering expriment, and the propagation...