Brief description
The principal aim of this project is to give a boost in the understanding of anomalous transport using two complementary approach: from one side we will proceed with precise and focussed experiments; from the other side we will adapt and develop analytic techniques coming from the dynamical system research area.
More precisely we intend to start a detailed study of the transport properties of light in inhomogeneous strongly disordered systems. Indeed, due to the fact that there is a huge variety of precision techniques to measure its properties, to the fact that is possible to study both coherent and incoherent properties and to the fact that photons can be considered has non-interacting in practically all the interesting cases, light can be regarded as a useful paradigm for the study of transport processes. Experimental results in this framework will be a stimulus for the study of analytical method which will eventually provide new results suited to be checked in the laboratory. The project will thus profit from the combined approach: the optical-experimental and the mathematical physics one.