The main goal of the Light and Complexity project (ERC StG 2007) was to observe replica symmetry breaking (a process predicted by Giorgio Parisi) in random lasers and nonlinear waves.
After our successful experiments in 2015 and 2017, the results are now cited in the motivations of the 2021 Nobel Prize to Giorgio Parisi !
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/sciback_fy_en_21.pdf
See also