Wave transport around the localization threshold

Bart van Tiggelen

CNRS/ Laboratoire de Physique et Modelisation des Systemes Condenses
Universite Joseph Fourier Maison de Magisteres, B.P. 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

I present a new theory that is capable of describing coherent backscattering and transmission of waves very close to the mobility edge of localization. Theory is a generalization of the self-consistent theory of localization, devised 20 years ago by Götze, Vollhardt and Wölfle. It is able to deal with boundary condition, an important requirement for a quantitative describtion of coherent backscattering. A comparison will be presented to experiments conducted in Florence and Amsterdam.