Deliverable 5.4:

SECOND ADVISORY REPORT OF THE IAC

Project no. 316165

Project acronym: CCQCN

Project full title: Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology

REGPOT-2012-2013-1

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

Deliverable 5.4 Second Advisory Report of the IAC

Due date of deliverable: M30

Dissemination level: PU

Second Advisory Report of the IAC Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology

Executive Summary

Deliverable 5.4 comprises the Second Advisory Report of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (CCQCN), an EC-supported FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1 project (project number: 316165), which is located at the Department of the and started its operation on September 1, 2013. The International Advisory Committee comprises three senior scientists (namely, Professors Zaanen, Buchner, and Saxena) and is a complementary body that assists the Management Committee of CCQCN in the research directions, hirings, twinning and workshops. More precisely, the scope of the IAC is to monitor the progress made during the implementation of the CCQCN project, and advice toward the most beneficial implementation of the project and on all aspects of the Center activities. The IAC assesses the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of the project.

The 2nd Advisory Report of the IAC takes into account the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of CCQCN as revealed in the M13-M30 (M30=February 2016) period of the lifetime of the project.

IAC members have visited the CCQCN on September 2013 (Prof. Zaanen and Prof. Saxena, attended the CCQCN Kick-off Meeting), September 2014 (Prof. Zaanen attended the Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics Workshop), and October 2014 (Prof. Saxena visited CCQCN). The visits gave the opportunity to the IAC members to be briefed by the Coordinator (Prof. Tsironis) and the group members on research and management issues specific to the project. Prof. Zaanen, Prof. Saxena and Prof. Tsironis had a working meeting at the ICSM2016 Conference (5th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism, which took place on April 24-30 2016, in Fethiye Turkey) during which they were briefed by the CCQCN Coordinator, Prof. Tsironis, and had fruitful discussions. The IAC produces its 2nd advisory report (with Prof. Saxena coordinating the preparation of the report, being in contact with the Coordinator and with the other IAC members) in the form of deliverable D5.4, providing advice for the future CCQCN evolution.

Based on the documentation provided by the CCQCN Coordinator and CCQCN members, in- situ visits and personal communication, the IAC has found that the evolution, achievements and success of CCQCN is utterly satisfactory and conforming to the planned Description of Work (DoW) and to Europe’s Research Potential objectives; these achievements are documented in the rest of this Report. CCQCN is generating significant research potential in the promising fields of quantum science & technology and nanotechnology.

It should be mentioned that during the M1-M30 period, CCQCN researchers have produced 127 research papers (working papers, papers submitted to refereed journals, published papers), which are presented in Appendix I; more than 200 total outgoing research visits took place (in twinning institutions, major international research groups, international conferences and events) from CCQCN members and researchers, as well as more than 100 incoming research visits to CCQCN, strengthening the research potential of CCQCN.

Research is rigorously conducted in all main research directions, namely:

Research Direction 1: Magnetics and Magnetic Nanodevices Research Direction 2: Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Systems Research Direction 3: Complex Materials and .

Regarding the hired research personnel, an overall of 27 Experienced Researchers (ERs) have been hired, along with 6 Senior Experienced Researchers (SERs) and 12 short-term research contracts. 2 administrative assistants have also been hired as well as one technician (computer specialist). Affiliate institutions and additional members have been added (Prof. Tzortzakis, Dr. Provata, Dr. Aubry, Prof. Pavlidis, Prof. Zoras, Prof. Spanoudakis, Prof. Karakasis et al.; the entire list of CCQCN members, affiliate members, and researchers is presented in Appendix II at the end of this document), and a number of short-term appointments for research support personnel and administrative support personnel (to assist with the dissemination/outreach activity of the Center) have been completed.

Workshops are held as planned, the website is in operation (http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr), and outreach events and post-doc days (Appendix III presents the program of the 19th November 2015 event) take place systematically. Outreach activities have intensified as the project has entered its last year (2016). It is important to strengthen the outreach activity (toward this end, hirings of support personnel by short-term contracts will help sustain this high level of activity without putting a burden on the administrative and the research personnel of the Center). The Center collaborates with the Regional authorities (Regional Innovation Council of Crete, Region of Crete, Chambers of Commerce and Industry) for contributions relevant to the region’s Smart Specialization Strategy.

The external evaluation committee has been formed. CCQCN has asked for an amendment to the Description of Work (DoW), which has been granted by the relevant Authority (B5 Spreading of Excellence & Widening Participation, DG Research and Innovation), thus extending the research work for 3 more months (M37-M39). This time extension of the research work will greatly benefit the outcome and the research excellence of the Center.

Regarding the contribution of the Center to regional development, it should be pointed that ’s recent economic condition has resulted in a substantial delay of implementing Structural Funds in the country (due to country's problems, although these funds have been agreed by EU authorities the processes/procedures have not been developed and implemented yet). 2016 will be the year for a substantial implementation of the Structural Funds framework in Greece (the Region of Crete has been earmarked for funds of over 300 million Euros). Extending CCQCN’s activity in the second half of 2016 (M37-M39), and establishing contacts with officials in the Region of Crete (at the level of Governor and Vice- Governors of the Region of Crete) will help build/create synergies between Structural Funds and the Research Framework Programme, enhancing the CCQCN’s competitiveness and excellence in research, and directly contributing to a regional, national and European sustainable economic development.

The equipment procurement process is in its final stage. The High-Performance Cluster (HPC) has been acquired and is in operation since March 2015. The Cryogen-free optical/electrical access cryostat/superconductive magnet assembly has been acquired and is in operation, as is the Broad/Narrow band light excitation and single photon detection instrumentation. The procurement process for the acquisition of (a) the ink-jet printing system and the accompanying equipment, and (b) the atomic layer deposition reactor, is in progress (deadline for bid offers is May 11, 2016). The procurement of the chemical vapor deposition reactor will start in May 2016.

CCQCN researchers work with subcontractor STEP-C to explore and proceed with commercialization aspects of their work. A University of Crete spin-off company (in which the University of Crete owns 5% of equity with the rest of the equity percentage vested to CCQCN members) has already been formed. Discussions with high-tech companies in areas of co-development have been commenced.

1. INTRODUCTION

The CCQCN profile Starting its operation on September 1, 2013 (as an EC-supported FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1 project; Project number: 316165), the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology (CCQCN) has actively pursued high-caliber theoretical, experimental and computational research in promising areas of Condensed Matter Physics and applications. The CCQCN is located at the premises of the Physics Department of the University of Crete and its members are professors of the Physics Department of the University of Crete, pursuing research in areas such as:

 Josephson junctions (theory) [Tsironis, Panagopoulos, Flytzanis, Lazarides, Kiritsis]  Ultrafast phenomena (theory) [Zotos, Perakis]  Magnetics (theory) [Zotos, Papanicolaou]  Quantum metamaterials(theory) [Tsironis, Economou]  Holographic models for strongly correlated electrons [Kiritsis, Panagopoulos, Petkou, Tomaras]  Graphene (experiment) [Iliopoulos, Konstantinidis, Kalosakas, Papagelis]  Nanoelectronics, flexible (experiment) [Iliopoulos, Kiriakidis]  Measurements, atomic physics(experiment) [Panagopoulos, Kominis, Rakitzis]  Superconductivity (experiment) [Panagopoulos]  Computational condensed matter physics [Tsironis, Zotos, Papanicolaou, Perakis]

CCQCN members and hired senior-experienced researchers (SERs) and experienced researchers (ERs) interact closely with researchers, via twinning links, in 9 leading institutions, namely the:  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen  Institute for Solid State Research (IFW), Dresden  Cambridge University, incl. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) Cavendish Laboratory and Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronics including specialized scientists in the focus areas in other UK institutions  Leiden University  Laboratory of Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS), Toulouse  Institute of Solid State Physics, Technion, Haifa including I-Core collaboration and scientists in Israel  Cologne University  Physics Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)  Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de l’Ecole Normale Superieure (LPT ENS), including scientists of the Paris area.

CCQCN follows, as planned in the Description of Work (DoW), the procurement of a state-of- the-art high-performance computational facility (HPC) and experimental equipment (to enhance its low temperature and micro-nanoelectronics facilities), thus enabling its large number of hired young experienced researchers to advance collaborative research work in the focus areas. The interaction (twinning) with the leading European institutions and the strong visitors/workshops/conference-organization program of the Center enables major advancements in research in order to turn CCQCN into a Center of Excellence with long term viability.

CCQCN’s International Advisory Committee (IAC) CCQCN’s International Advisory Committee (IAC) consists of three outstanding senior researchers in the field that are world-class scientists and the Coordinator of CCQCN who assists the Committee. The three (“external”) scientists of the IAC, are (in alphabetical order): • Johannes Zaanen, Professor at the Instituut Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, and Physics Department, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands. • Bernd Büchner, Professor at the Institute of Solid State Research, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany. • Siddharth S. Saxena, Professor at Cambridge Unviersity’s Jesus College and Cavendish Laboratory where he heads the Quantum Matter Group and also Chairman of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum. Prof. Johannes Zaanen is a world leader in condensed matter physics, an expert on high Tc superconductors strongly correlated electronic systems and related materials. Prof. Bernd Büchner is the Director of the Institute for Sold State Research in Dresden (IFW) and a world expert in magnetics and superconductivity, while Prof. S. Saxena is a renowned experimentalist in condensed matter physics with significant work in superconductivity and complex quantum electronic systems.

The scope of the IAC is to monitor the progress of the project, give advice on research directions, SER and ER hiring, management procedures etc.

Deliverable 5.4 comprises the Second Advisory Report of the IAC taking into account the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of CCQCN as revealed in the M13-M30 time period of the lifetime of the project. It should be mentioned that Deliverable 5.4 is a follow-up of Deliverable 5.2, which comprised the First Advisory Report of the IAC taking into account the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of CCQCN as revealed in the first year (first 12-months) of the lifetime of the project.

IAC members have visited the CCQCN on September 2013 (Prof. Zaanen and Prof. Saxena, attended the CCQCN Kick-off Meeting), September 2014 (Prof. Zaanen attended the Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics Workshop), and October 2014 (Prof. Saxena visited CCQCN). The visits gave the opportunity to the IAC members to be briefed by the Coordinator (Prof. Tsironis) and the group members on research and management issues specific to the project. Prof. Zaanen, Prof. Saxena and Prof. Tsironis had a working meeting at the ICSM2016 - 5th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (April 24-30 2016, Fethiye Turkey), during which they were briefed by the CCQCN Coordinator, Prof. Tsironis, and had fruitful discussions.

Based on the documentation provided by the CCQCN Coordinator and CCQCN members, in- situ visits and personal communication, the IAC has found the evolution, achievements and success of CCQCN utterly satisfactory and conforming to the DoW as planned; these achievements are documented in the following Chapter of this Report.

2. DOCUMENTATION OF CCQCN ACTIVITIES

Work has been pursued on all work-packages (WPs), with emphasis on WP1-6 but also on the initial steps of the WP7 (which focuses on the project evaluation planned for M37-M42).

Activities per WP are presented below.

WP1: Strengthening the Research Potential 6 SERs and 27 ERs (as well as 12 ER/SER short-term appointments) have been hired via the appropriate EU and Greek State’s rules and procedures for employment of researchers.

Contracts are awarded for a one-year period after which they can be extended. A few short- term ER assignments have also been awarded; their durations span one to two months or have durations with fixed terminations. Shorter ER appointments reflect advancement of researchers’ careers. For example, Dr. Phoebus [Foivos] Perakis) was hired as ER for a shorter period of time because he got employment at Stanford University, USA. Shorter ER appointments also provide a way to facilitate research interaction with researchers who are available for shorter periods of time and who do intensive work with CCQCN researchers offering their contribution to the research outcome and excellence of the Center. Furthermore, it should be positively mentioned short-term appointments for research support (especially in the area of algorithm and code development in a high-performance- cluster computational environment) in order to enhance the work of the CCQCN researchers; the names of the research support hirings appear in the relevant Table in Appendix II.

The openings of the SER and the ER positions have been announced via the proper sources of dissemination of information on research job openings (EURAXESS); the advertisements have been presented in Deliverable 1.1 (for SERs) and Deliverable 1.3 (for ERs).

The total number of SER+ER positions is considerably more than the number of positions (15) presented to the DoW original plan (this increase has been achieved due to the current world-wide economic climate which lowers overall salary levels and, thus, offers additional positions).

The total CCQCN p-month projected effort is expected to be 777 p-months (compared to the planned, in the DoW, total p-month effort of 510 months [170 for SERs and 340 for ERs], that is there is a 50% increase in the research effort during the lifetime of the project.

CCQCN RESEARCH PERSONNEL LIST (ALL researchers; SERs, ERs, and short-term contracts) ΝΑΜΕ ΕR/SER/ other Beginning of Contract End of Contract SERs Dr. Nikolaos Lazaridis SER 1/9/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Vasilios Niarchos SER 1/9/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Georgios Neofotistos SER 1/9/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Patrick Henri Navez SER 1/5/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Veerman Pieter SER 15/8/2014 14/8/2015 Dr. Oksana Shramkova SER 1/10/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Konstantinos Makris SER 1/8/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) ERs Dr. Zacharias Viskadourakis ER 1/9/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Ioannis Margaris ER 1/10/2013 30/9/2014 Dr. Leonidas Mouchliadis ER 1/10/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Vasilios Binas ER 1/9/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Dimitra Psiachou ER 15/10/2013 31/8/2014 Dr. Fraile Alberto ER 15/10/2013 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Jacek Wojciech ER 20/1/2014 31/7/2016 Dr. Li Li ER 1/9/2015 31/8/2016 Dr. Wei-Jia Li ER 1/9/2015 31/8/2016 Dr. Yoshinori Matsuo ER 1/9/2014 31/8/2016 Dr. Ayan Mukhopadhyay ER 1/10/2014 31/8/2015 Dr. Ioanna Hizanides ER 15/11/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Thomas Economou ER 15/11/2014 31/7/2015 Dr. Nick Christakis ER 15/11/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Marios Mattheakis ER 15/11/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Fabrice Iacovella ER 1/12/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Vladimir Prudovskiy ER 1/12/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Haisu Zhang ER 15/11/2014 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Amy Briffa ER 10/7/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Eleftheria Kavousanaki ER 10/8/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Georgios Barmparis ER 10/8/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Wenliang Li ER 1/10/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. David Chow ER 1/9/2015 31/8/2016 Dr. Adam Adikimenakis ER 1/10/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Anastasia Rissanou ER 20/10/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Fotis Kalaitzakis ER 19/11/2015 30/11/2016 (exp) Dr. Symeon Tsintzos ER 19/11/15 30/11/2016 (exp) Shorter-term appointments Dr. Phoebus Perakis ER 1/11/2013 15/12/13 Dr. Filippos Vallianatos ER 2/1/2014 31/3/2014 Dr. Zoran Ivic SER 2/6/2014 30/6/2014 Dr. Ioannis Karadamoglou ER 9/6/2014 8/9/2014 Dr. Lukovic Mirko ER 2/6/2014 30/6/2014 Dr. Dionisis Anninos SER 1/11/2015 30/11/2015 Dr. Christina Psaroudaki ER 19/1/2015 18/2/2015 Dr. David Campbell SER 10/11/2014 9/12/2014 Dr. Kyriakos Papadodimas SER 1/3/2015 24/3/2015 Dr. Francesco Nitti SER 1/12/2014 24/12/2014 Dr. Gursoy Umut SER 1/12/2014 24/12/2014

The appointments of Dr. D. Psiachou, Dr. I. Margaris, Dr. P. Veerman, and Dr. T. Economou have lasted one-year or less (each) (for example, Dr. T. Economou had found a position of Assistant Professor and had to proceed accordingly).

WP2: Infrastructure Procurement of the HPC (High Performance Computing) has been finalized. Under Greek law, an international bid process must be followed. The equipment specifications need to be openly announced for 52 days. On April 9, 2014, the bid offers were opened and the evaluation procedure started. The HPC facility is expected to be procured by the end of 2014. Official language of the bid process is Greek (a necessary condition under Greek Law). It should be mentioned that the procurement process has three necessary steps: a) the opening of the bid offers and the examination/evaluation of the necessary legal documents for participating in the bid process, b) the opening of the technical offer (compliance with specs), and c) the opening of the economic offer.

After each step, the evaluation committee must submit each specific report to the University’s Research Committee for confirmation; this Committee meets once a month. If vendors have objections to the specific evaluation/compliance reports, they can submit their objections for discussion and deliberation, after each step. The successful completion of these steps, lead to the grading of each technical and economic offer (and their aggregate grade) and subsequent ranking of each offer.

The HPC system became operational in March 2015; it was named The METROPOLIS Supercomputing Facility in order to commemorate the legacy of Nickolas Metropolis, a Greek-American pioneer in computational physics.

The Opening Ceremony (Inauguration) took place on March 27, 2015, with Greek State Authorities, Regional Authorities, and University of Crete Authorities participating; the event’s program is presented below:

INAUGURATION Nicholas C. Metropolis High Performance Computational Facility CCQCN, Physics Department, UoC Date: Friday, March 27, 2015 Venue: 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Physics Department, University of Crete

Time Welcome Speeches by Authorities

Prof. K. Fotakis (tbc) Deputy Minister of Research & Innovation, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education & Religious Affairs 10.00 – 10.45 Mrs V. Manasaki, Vice Governor in the Region of Crete for "Energy and Industry"

Prof. E. Stephanou, Rector, UoC

Prof. M. Taroudakis, Dean, School of Sciences and Engineering, UoC

Honouring the legacy of Nicholas C. Metropolis in establishing the HPC Facility of CCQCN 10.45 – 11.15 Prof. G. Tsironis, CCQCN Coordinator

Lattice QCD, its Computational Cost and its Impact on Particle Physics 11.15 - 12.15 Prof. H. Meyer, Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

12.15 - 12.30 Coffee Break

Arrays of optically coupled Lasers 12.30 - 13.30 Prof. V. Kovanis VT, CREOL and NU

13.30 - 14.30 Networking Session - Lunch

The Cryogen-free optical/electrical access cryostat/superconductive magnet assembly has been acquired and is operational.

So is the Broad/Narrow band light excitation and single photon detection instrumentation. The procurement process for the acquisition of (a) the ink-jet printing system and the accompanying equipment, and (b) the atomic layer deposition reactor, is currently in progress (deadline for the relevant bid offers is May 5 and May 11, 2016). The procurement process for the chemical vapor deposition reactor will commence in May 2016.

It should be noted that the recent economic conditions in Greece, which have resulted in CCQCN’s ability to hire more researchers (because of lower wages in the country) and increase the Center’s research production, have also produced a delayed impact in the timely operation of the laboratory equipment. Regarding the laboratory equipment procurement, the establishment of capital controls in the Greek State in 2015, have delayed the procurement of the expensive items such as the cryogen-free cryostats and the superconductive magnet assembly (costing 194000 Euros) – nevertheless CCQCN has managed to finalize the procurement process successfully.

WP3: Personnel exchanges, twinning and international visits During the M1-M30 period, CCQCN members and researchers have made more than 200 total outgoing research visits took place (in twinning institutions, major international research groups, international conferences and events), and more than 100 incoming research visits have been made to CCQCN, strengthening the research potential of CCQCN.

CCQCN’s affiliate institutions comprise the NCSR Democritus Research Center in , the University of , the Center for High Technologies (Tashkent), the Institute for High Technologies (Kazakhstan), the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the Center for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study of Massey University (New Zealand).

It should be mentioned that CCQCN has signed Memoranda of Understanding for strengthening its research links and dissemination activity with the Center for High Technologies in Uzbekistan, with the Institute for High Technologies in Kazakhstan, the International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of China, and the Institute of New Energy, Futian District, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China.

CCQCN has added as new members and affiliate members (the overall list is presented in Appendix II).

CCQCN’s new researchers have presented their work to the research and academic communities every semester.

The overall collaborative activity (research production) of the Center has resulted in 127 preprints and journal papers (that is, submitted to refereed journals). A complete list is presented in Appendix I.

WP4: Workshop organization, outreach and dissemination The kick-off Meeting of the CCQCN took place on September 5-7, 2013, at the premises of the Department of Physics. CCQCN has already organized its first and second year’s workshops/conferences and currently organizes its third year’s workshops, namely:

Spin Orbit Coupling and Topology in Low Dimensions (27 June-02 July 2016)

Quantum Metamaterials & Quantum Technology (20-24 June 2016)

Non-Hermitian Photonics in Complex Media: PT-symmetry and beyond (15-18 June 2016)

These workshops/conferences replace the originally planned “Graphene/nano applications” workshop and the “Final Conference”, which were originally planned in the DoW, under permission by the Project Officer.

It should be mentioned that all the first and second year’s planned workshops/conferences have been successfully organized; these workshops/conferences comprised: (i) Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics [Holographic applications] (Responsible: Prof. Kiritsis), which took place September 1-7, 2014, at Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. (ii) Quantum metamaterials (Responsible: Prof. Tsironis), which took place June 1-6, 2015, in the island of Spetses, Greece. (iii) Spin-Orbit Coupling in Surface or Interface States (Correlated electronic materials; Responsible: Prof. Panagopoulos), which took place June 8-12, 2015, in the island of Spetses, Greece. (iv) “Quantum Μagnets” (Magnetics workshop; Responsible: Prof. Zotos), which took place September 13-19, 2015, at Kolymbari, Crete, Greece .

The CCQCN workshops/conferences have been properly announced. For example, the Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics Workshop, which took place in September 1-7, 2014, at Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, had been announced via the CCQCN’s website and via the Conference’s website (http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/regpot2014/index.html), as well as the mailing and e- communication of its poster to all members of the global research community in the field.

The Quantum Metamaterials workshop (Responsible: Prof. Tsironis), which took take place June 1-6, 2015, in the island of Spetses, Greece, had been announced via CCQCN’s website and the workshop’s website https://qcn.physics.uoc.gr /qmm2015/, as well as the mailing and e- communication of its poster to all members of the global research community in the field

The Spin-Orbit Coupling in Surface or Interface States (Correlated electronic materials; Responsible: Prof. Panagopoulos), which took place June 8-12, 2015, in the island of Spetses, Greece, had been announced via CCQCN’s website and the workshop’s website http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr/socsis2015/ as well as the mailing and e-communication of its poster to all members of the global research community in the field.

Additional Workshops/Conferences:

With funds permitting, CCQCN has additionally organized / co-organized (in 2015) two additional conferences (the websites of which can be found in CCQCN’s website), namely:

(a) Quantum Phononics From Transport and Optomechanics to Quantum Biology (27-29 May, 2015) (organised by CCQCN), and (b) Stochastic Methods in Finance and Physics (20-24 July, 2015) (co-organised by CCQCN)

Before those, as described in the DoW (WP4), the Center organized the “Fourth International Workshop on Statistical Mechanics and Dynamical Systems” (focusing on complexity and dynamical systems), which took place in Athens, 17-19 July 2014. CCQCN organized and partially supported this workshop because it focused on issues related to the research activities of the Center and its members. Information about the workshop can be found at http://grtr.physics.uoc.gr/2014/index.php.

As is also described in the DoW (WP4), CCQCN can organize possible additional workshop organization (if the funds permit it) in research areas related to the research activities of the Center and its members. CCQCN co-organized the 4th PhD Summer School – Conference on “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems”, which took place in Athens on July 14-25, and which was announced and presented at: http://nlsconf.physics.uoc.gr/ .

Within this framework, CCQCN also sponsored a session at the ICCMSE 2014 Conference (the 10th International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering), 4-7 April 2014, Athens; announced and presented at: http://www.iccmse.org

Outreach: A strong outreach and dissemination activity in early 2016 comprises: (a) two presentations of the Center to the school communities of Chania and in Spring 2016 (events under the auspices of the Region of Crete, on February 27 and April 9, respectively, involving students, parents, and educators), (b) a general public presentation of the Center and its outcome in Rethymnon (on April 21), (c) presentation of the Center’s infrastructure and results to “Press the Innovation Button” event on innovation and innovative products, organized on April 13, 2016, by the Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEI-Crete), in Heraklion Crete. (d) participation -with an exhibition stand- to the “PatrasInnovationQuest 2016 (PatrasIQ 2016)” technology transfer event and exhibition, organized by Greek Ministry of Education, the University of Patras, the Region of Western Greece et al. on April 15-17, 2016.

In order to disseminate the Center’s research results, a (free) advanced graduate online course entitled “Research Frontiers in Quantum Science & Technology” is under development. This course will present research areas and results from the Center’s research groups. It will be available to graduate students and researchers in September 2016.

Outreach activities have intensified as the Center has already entered its last year (2016) of the lifetime of the CCQCN project. It is important to strengthen the outreach activity. Toward this end, the hirings of support personnel by short-term contracts will help sustain this high level of activity without putting a burden on the administrative and the research personnel of the Center.

It should be mentioned that, in 2015, the Center participated to activities of the European projects “Quantum Spinoff” and “Irresistible”, which address schools and the school communities. In 2014, the Center presented its activities on February 4, 2014, in the Hi-Tech Conference at the Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry (BECI), a business-to- business event organized by BECI and the Greek Embassy in Brussels.

CCQCN website: The website of the Center (http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr) has been operational from the very first day, facilitating both the informational needs of the Center’s members as well as the outreach and dissemination effort.

WP5: Management and International Advisory Committee

Day-to-day operations are overseen by the CCQCN Coordinator and the Management Committee, supported by 2 administrative assistants (who also support the twinning visits, the newly hired ERs and SERs regarding administrative issues, the secretarial support of the workshops/conferences, as well as the administrative, and financial aspects of the operation of the Center) and a computer specialist (supporting the digital infrastructure). Activities include contacts with the International Advisory Committee (IAC) members (as planned and presented in the DoW) and regional contacts (i.e. Crete Region).

As stated in the DoW, the International Advisory Committee, comprises three outside senior scientists (Professors Zaanen, Buchner, and Saxena) and is a complementary body that assists the Management Committee of CCQCN in the research directions, hirings, twinning and workshops. The scope of the IAC is to monitor the progress made during the implementation of the CCQCN project and advice toward the most beneficial implementation of the project and on all aspects of the Center activities. The IAC fully assess the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of the project.

The 1st Advisory Report of the IAC (deliverable 5.2) takes into account the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of CCQCN as revealed in the M1-M12 (M1=September 2013) period of the lifetime of the project. It has been successfully prepared, delivered and accepted by the Project Officer (and uploaded in the Participants Portal).

The current 2nd Advisory Report of the IAC takes into account the evolution, achievements, success and/or possible problems of CCQCN as revealed in the M13-M30 (M30=February 2016) period of the lifetime of the project.

It should be mentioned that IAC members have visited the CCQCN on September 2013 (Prof. Zaanen and Prof. Saxena, attended the CCQCN Kick-off Meeting), September 2014 (Prof. Zaanen attended the Quantum Field Theory, String Theory, and Condensed Matter Physics Workshop), and October 2014 (Prof. Saxena visited CCQCN). The visits gave the opportunity to the IAC members to be briefed by the Coordinator (Prof. Tsironis) and the group members on research and management issues specific to the project. Prof. Zaanen, Prof. Saxena and Prof. Tsironis had a working meeting at the ICSM2016 - 5th International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (April 24-30 2016, Fethiye Turkey), during which they were briefed by the CCQCN Coordinator, Prof. Tsironis, and had fruitful discussions.

WP6: Organization and management of intellectual property and innovation capability The Center’s Exploitation of Innovation Committee (EIC) commenced its activity in October 2014. Dr. Michael Katharakis, from the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was selected to participate in the Committee due to his position and statute in the region’s business community but also due to his commitment to maintaining and strengthening the links to the research community (he holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Crete).

The Center finalized (in October 2014), as described in DoW, the contract and administrative aspects related to the procurement of the services supplied by the Science and Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C), an expert in technology transfer and IPR, and IP Strategy. STEP-C provides (to the Center): (a) Training and IP skills development for all researchers and personnel involved in research and management of technology; and enhancement of an innovation and innovation exploitation culture. (b) Identification of IP (protectable project research outcomes) in collaboration with CCQCN researchers; evaluation of potential commercial uses of inventions; identification of appropriate methods of protection considering costs, length and market particularities; planning of an IP commercialization route; all these leading to development and management of an IP portfolio and technology portfolio. (c) Setting up a systematic collaborative structure (liaisons) to provide continuous support on IPR/Technology Transfer issues

The contract to STEP-C signed in October 2014 and IP training seminars began in November 2014 and concluded in Spring 2015. Deliverable D6.1 “Guide to IPRs and Patents” has been prepared, submitted and accepted by the Project Officer.

Currently, CCQCN researchers work with STEP-C to discuss and to explore commercialization aspects of their work. Up to now, researchers P. Navez, V. Binas, G. Neofotistos, and CCQCN members professors G. Kiriakidis, E. Iliopoulos, I. Kominis have worked with STEP-C on IPR and commercialization potential of their research work. A University of Crete spin-off company (in which the University of Crete owns 5% of equity with the rest vested in CCQCN members) has already been formed.

At the same time, start-up Tribe-Wearables (http://tribewearables.com), a VC-backed startup based in Komotini, Greece, which is developing a cutting edge muscle activity tracker embedded into sport apparel, is in discussions with CCQCN researchers toward the development of inks (with nanoparticles) to be painted on the sport apparel in order to function as sensors and conducting lines to monitoring muscle activity of the person wearing the apparel.

The EIC, in collaboration with STEP-C, is instrumental in the Center's communication with the Regional authorities (Regional Innovation Council of Crete, Region of Crete, Chambers of Commerce and Industry) for relevance to the region’s Smart Specialization Strategy and for dissemination of research and infrastructure resources.

Regarding the regional development role of CCQCN, the Center has started collaborating with the Region of Crete in the recent (March 2016) initiative of the Region of Crete to launch the Crete Center for Energy Technologies (ΚΕΤΕΚ) in order to focus on modern energy technologies. This Crete Center for Energy Technologies is part of the Region of Crete Smart Strategic Specialization (S3) policy. Energy efficiency is of primary importance to the Region of Crete. The island of Crete becomes the top Greek tourist destination every summer, with an immense need for energy generation and steady-state distribution. CCQCN participates in this regional initiative by providing its METROPOLIS Supercomputing Facility for advanced scientific projects. In this “energy” line of regional activity, CCQCN presented its research infrastructure to participants in the “Crete has Energy” workshop (Heraklion, March 22-23) on innovative energy technologies; the workshop was organized by the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry, STEP-C, the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, and the University of Crete, and was supported by the Greek German Assembly (DGV), the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation in Athens, the State Development Corporation of Thuringia, the Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises – pro South Thuringia, the Green Chiller – European Association for Sorption Cooling, and the CCQCN.

It should be pointed that Greece’s recent economic condition has resulted in a substantial delay of implementing Structural Funds in the country (due to country's problems, although these funds have been agreed by EU authorities the processes/procedures have not been developed and implemented yet). 2016 will be the year for a substantial implementation of the Structural Funds framework in Greece (the Region of Crete has been earmarked for funds of over 300 million Euros). Extending CCQCN’s activity in the second half of 2016 (M37-M39), and establishing contacts with officials in the Region of Crete (at the level of Governor and Vice-Governors of the Region of Crete) will help build/create synergies between Structural Funds and the Research Framework Programme, enhancing the CCQCN’s competitiveness and excellence in research, and directly contributing to a regional, national and European sustainable economic development.

WP7: Project Evaluation Activity on this work-package has commenced. The external evaluation committee has been formed.

Deliverables: All the deliverables of the project for the period spanning M1-M30 have been prepared and uploaded to the Participants Portal.

3. CONCLUSIONS

Based on personal interaction with the CCQCN Coordinator as well as on documentation provided by the Center, the IAC has found the evolution, achievements and success of CCQCN utterly satisfactory and conforming to the DoW as planned. CCQCN generates significant research potential in the promising fields of quantum science & technology and nanotechnology.

It should specifically be mentioned that during the M1-M30 period, CCQCN researchers have produced 127 research papers (working papers, papers submitted to refereed journals, published papers); more than 200 total outgoing research visits have taken place (in twinning institutions, major international research groups, international conferences and events) from CCQCN members and researchers, as well as more than 100 incoming research visits to CCQCN, strengthening the research potential of CCQCN.

Research is rigorously conducted in all main research directions, namely: Research Direction 1: Magnetics and Magnetic Nanodevices Research Direction 2: Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter Systems Research Direction 3: Complex Materials and Metamaterials.

CCQCN has hired an overall of 27 Experienced Researchers (ERs) as well as 6 Senior Experienced Researchers (SERs); along with 12 short-term contracts. 2 administrative assistants have also been hired as well as one technician (computer specialist). Affiliate institutions and additional members have been added. A number of short-term appointments for research support personnel (to assist, primarily, with algorithmic and parallel code development in a high-performance-cluster environment) and administrative support personnel (to assist with the dissemination/outreach activity of the Center) have taken place in order to accelerate the research work of CCQCN researchers (the former) and enhance the increased dissemination and outreach effort of the Center (the latter) so that the ordinary CCQCN admin personnel will not be disrupted by the excess effort (thus, offering a positive impact to the overall outcome of the Center).

Workshops are held as planned, the website is in operation (http://qcn.physics.uoc.gr), and outreach events and post-doc days take place systematically. The external evaluation committee has been formed.

The equipment procurement process is in its final stage. The High-Performance Cluster (HPC) has been acquired and is in operation since March 2015. The Cryogen-free optical/electrical access cryostat/superconductive magnet assembly has been acquired, as is the Broad/Narrow band light excitation and single photon detection instrumentation. The procurement process for the acquisition of (a) the ink-jet printing system and the accompanying equipment, and (b) the atomic layer deposition reactor, is in progress (deadline for bid offers is May 11, 2016).

CCQCN has asked for an amendment to the Description of Work (DoW), which has been accepted by the relevant Authority (B5 Spreading of Excellence & Widening Participation, DG Research and Innovation), thus extending the research work for 3 more months (M37-M39). This time extension of the research work will greatly benefit the outcome and the research excellence of the Center.

APPENDIX I TABLE: CCQCN’s Research Production (M1-M30) - Working Papers; Papers submitted to refereed journals; published Papers. CCQCN Code Date Authors Title of research paper Analytical and numerical study of diffusion-controlled drug release CCQCN-2013-1 22/10/2013 Amalia Hadjitheodorou, George Kalosakas from composite spherical matrices Transforming graphene nanoribbons into nanotubes by use of point CCQCN-2013-2 22/10/2013 A. Sgouros, M. M. Sigalas, Κ. Papagelis and G. Kalosakas defects CCQCN-2013-3 21/10/2013 N. Lazarides and G. P. Tsironis Nonlinear Localization in Metamaterials

CCQCN-2013-4 22/10/2013 G.P. Tsironis · N. Lazarides PT -symmetric nonlinear metamaterials and zero-dimensional systems T-matrix formalism for one space dimension systems with different CCQCN-2013-5 8/10/2013 I. Margaris, V. Paltoglou and N. Flytzanis spatial asymptotics and symmetry relations for ferromagnetic Josephson junctions

T. Alho M.Jarvinen K. Kajantie E. Kiritsis K. Tuominen A holographic model for QCD in the Veneziano limit at finite CCQCN-2013-6 24/10/2013 temperature and density CCQCN-2013-7 11/11/2013 Elias Kiritsis, Liuba Mazzanti and Francesco Nitti The confining trailing string CCQCN-2013-9 16/12/2013 G. P. Tsironis, N. Lazarides, A Maluckov and Lj. Hadzievski Extreme Events in Nonlinear Lattices Enhanced surface polariton propagation induced by active CCQCN-2013-10 10/1/2014 C. Athanasopoulos, M. Mattheakis and G.P.Tsironis dielectrics CCQCN-2013-11 12/12/2013 Jun Bourdier and Elias Kiritsis Holographic RG Flows and Nearly-Marginal Operators

CCQCN-2013-12 4/12/2013 Karl Landsteiner, Eugenio Megias and Francisco Pena-Benitez Frequency dependence of the Chiral Vortical Effect CCQCN-2013-13 5/1/2014 Elias Kiritsis, Wenliang Li, Francesco Nitti Holographic RG flow and the Quantum Effective Action Z. Viskadourakis, S. S. Sunku, S. Mukherjee, B. M. Andersen , CCQCN-2014-14 21/10/2015 T. Ito, T. Sasagawa and C. Panagopoulos Ferroelectricity in underdoped La-based cuprates CCQCN-2014-15 27/12/2013 Oliver DeWolfe, Steven S. Gubser and Christopher Rosen Fermionic response in a zero entropy state of N=4 super-Yang-Mills CCQCN-2014-16 10/1/2014 F. Perakis, M. Mattheakis and G. P.Tsironis Small-world networks of optical fiber lattices Takaaki Ishii, Shunichiro Kinoshita, Keiju Murata and Norihiro Dynamical Meson Melting in Holography CCQCN-2014-17 14/1/2014 Tanahashi CCQCN-2014-18 14/10/2013 G. Baris Bagci, Thomas Oikonomou Tsallis power laws and finite baths with negative heat capacity Quantum-optical nature of the recollision process in high-order- I. K. Kominis, G. Kolliopoulos, D. Charalambidis and P. Tzallas CCQCN-2014-19 18/1/2014 harmonic generation Lamb shift in radical-ion pairs produces a singlet-triplet energy K. M. Vitalis and I. K. Kominis CCQCN-2014-20 7/12/2013 splitting in photosynthetic reaction centers Spin-noise correlations and spin-noise exchange driven by low-field A. T. Dellis, M. Loulakis and I. K. Kominis CCQCN-2014-21 25/2/2014 spin-exchange collisions CCQCN-2014-22 2/2/2014 Thomas Oikonomou Clausius vs. Boltzmann-Gibbs entropies CCQCN-2014-23 17/2/2014 Vasilis Niarchos Supersymmetric Perturbations of the M5 brane QCD and strongly-coupled gauge theories: challenges and CCQCN-2014-24 20/2/2014 N. Brambilla, S. Eidelman, P. Foka, S. Gardner, A.S. Kronfeld perspectives CCQCN-2014-25 27/3/2014 D. Psiachos Coherent Electron Transfer in Polyacetylene CCQCN-2014-26 24/6/2014 Aristomenis Donos, Blaise Gouteraux, Elias Kiritsis Holographic and Insulators with Helical Symmetry Wide-Band Tuneability, Nonlinear Transmission, and Dynamic G. P. Tsironis, N. Lazarides, I. Margaris CCQCN-2014-27 18/4/2014 Multistability in SQUID Metamaterials

CCQCN-2014-28 2/6/2014 Demetra Psiachos, Nikos Lazarides, G.P. Tsironis PT -Symmetric Dimers with Time-Periodic Gain/Loss Function CCQCN-2014-29 23/6/2014 P. Binetruy E. Kiritsis, J. Mabillard, M. Pieroni, C. Rosset Universality classes for models of inflation CCQCN-2014-30 27/6/2014 Francesco Aprile, Takaaki Ishii A Simple Holographic Model of a Charged Lattice Exotic carbon nanostructures obtained through controllable defect A. P. Sgouros, G. Kalosakas, M. M. Sigalas and Κ. Papagelis CCQCN-2014-31 27/6/2014 engineering CCQCN-2014-32 21/7/2014 Daniel Fernandez Towards Collisions of Inhomogeneous Shockwaves in AdS CCQCN-2014-33 14/7/2014 D. Psiachos Superexchange in Mott-Hubbard Insulators M. Porer, U. Leierseder, J.-M. Menard, H. Dachraoui, L. Non-thermal separation of electronic and structural orders in a CCQCN-2014-34 20/7/2014 Mouchliadis, I. E. Perakis, U. Heinzmann, J. Demsar, K. persisting charge density wave Rossnagel & R. Huber CCQCN-2014-35 15/8/2014 Elias Kiritsis Gravity and axions from a random UV QFT CCQCN-2014-36 26/8/2014 N. Lazarides, G. Neofotistos, G. P. Tsironis Chimeras in SQUID Metamaterials CCQCN-2014-37 26/8/2014 Th. Oikonomou, A. Nergis, N. Lazarides, G. P. Tsironis Stochastic metastability by spontaneous localization CCQCN-2014-38 15/9/2014 Marco Baggio, Vasilis Niarchos, Kyriakos Papadodimas tt∗ equations, localization and exact chiral rings in 4d N=2 SCFTs CCQCN-2014-39 4/9/2014 Jelle Hartong, Elias Kiritsis, Niels A. Obers Lifshitz Spacetimes for Schroedinger Holography Schroedinger Invariance from Lifshitz Isometries in Holography and CCQCN-2014-40 4/9/2014 Jelle Hartong, Elias Kiritsis, Niels A. Obers Field Theory CCQCN-2014-41 25/2/2014 George Kiriakidis, Vassilios Binas Oxide Semiconductors as Visible Light Photocatalysts CCQCN-2014-42 15/9/2014 Marco Baggio, Vasilis Niarchos, Kyriakos Papadodimas Exact correlation functions in SU(2) N=2 superconformal QCD On the gluonic operator effective potential in holographic Yang-Mills CCQCN-2014-43 15/9/2014 Elias Kiritsis, Wenliang Li and Francesco Nitti theory Danae Venieri, Antonia Fraggedaki, Vassilios Binas, Apostolos Study of the generated genetic polymorphisms during the CCQCN-2014-44 3/9/2014 Zachopoulos, George Kiriakidis and Dionissios Mantzavinos photocatalytic elimination of Klebsiella pneumoniae in water C. Psaroudaki, J. Herbrych, J. Karadamoglou, P. Prelovsek, X. Effective S=1/2 description of the S=1 chain with strong easy-plane CCQCN-2014-45 27/6/2014 Zotos and N. Papanicolaou anisotropy CCQCN-2014-46 2/10/2014 J. Kokalj, J. Herbrych, A. Zheludev and P. Prelovsek Antiferromagnetic order in weakly coupled random spin chains CCQCN-2014-47 28/10/2014 Francesco Aprile and Vasilis Niarchos Large-N transitions of the connectivity index CCQCN-2014-48 21/10/2014 Huai-Fan Li, Li Li, Yong-Qiang Wang and Hai-Qing Zhang Non-relativistic Josephson Junction from Holography CCQCN-2014-49 21/10/2014 Elena Caceres, Arnab Kundu, Juan F.Pedraza and Di-Lun Yang Weak Field Collapse in AdS: Introducing a Charge Density CCQCN-2014-50 21/10/2014 Edmond Iancu and Ayan Mukhopadhyay A semi-holographic model of heavy-ion collisions CCQCN-2014-51 21/10/2014 Nicolas Behr, Stanislav Kuperstein and Ayan Mukhopadhyay Holography as a highly efficient RG flow : Part 1 Retrodictive derivation of the radical-ion-pair master equation and CCQCN-2014-52 21/10/2014 M. Kritsotakis and I. K. Kominis Monte Carlo simulation with single-molecule quantum trajectories CCQCN-2014-53 26/10/2014 Oliver DeWolfe, Oscar Henriksson and Christopher Rosen Fermi surface behavior in the ABJM M2-brane theory CCQCN-2014-54 31/10/2014 Pilar Herreros, Mario Ponce and J.J.P. Veerman Regularity of Mediatrices in Surfaces CCQCN-2014-55 11/3/2015 Elias Kiritsis, Jie Ren On Holographic Insulators and Supersolids CCQCN-2014-56 29/11/2014 Shyan S. Akmal, Nguyen Mau Nam and J. J. P. Veerman On a convex set with nondifferentiable metric projection Scaling of the Holographic AC conductivity for non-Fermi liquids at Elias Kiritsis, Francisco Pena-Benitez CCQCN-2014-57 criticality Xiao-Jian Bai, Bum-Hoon Lee, Li Li, Jia-Rui Sun and Hai-Qing Time Evolution of Entanglement Entropy in Quenched Holographic CCQCN-2014-58 17/12/2014 Zhang Superconductors CCQCN-2015-59 30/12/2014 Zhang-Yu Nie, Rong-Gen Cai, Xin Gao, Li Li and Hui Zeng Phase transitions in a holographic s+p model with backreaction CCQCN-2015-60 15/1/2015 Matti Järvinen Recent progress in backreacted bottom-up holographic QCD CCQCN-2015-61 28/1/2015 Matti Järvinen Massive holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit Quantum and stringy corrections to the equation of state of CCQCN-2015-62 26/1/2015 T. Alho, M. Jarvinen, K. Kajantie, E. Kiritsis K. Tuominen holographic QCD matter and the nature of the chiral transition K. Rogdakis, Z. Viskadourakis, A.P. Petrović, E. Choi, J. Lee and Geometric tuning of charge and spin correlations in manganite CCQCN-2015-63 10/1/2015 C.Panagopoulos superlattices Field Theory on Newton-Cartan Backgrounds and Symmetries of the CCQCN-2015-64 1/2/2015 Jelle Hartong, Elias Kiritsis, Niels A. Obers Lifshitz Vacuum CCQCN-2015-65 2/2/2015 Rong-Gen Cai, Li Li, Li-Fang Li and Run-Qiu Yang Introduction to Holographic Superconductor Models Emmanuel N. Koukaras, George Kalosakas, Costas Galiotis Phonon properties of graphene derived from molecular dynamics CCQCN-2015-66 4/2/2015 and Konstantinos Papagelis simulations CCQCN-2015-67 19/2/2015 Takaaki Ishii, Elias Kiritsis, Christopher Rosen Thermalization in a Holographic Confining Gauge Theory Correlating Quasi-Electron Relaxation with Quantum Femtosecond T. Li, A. Patz, P. Lingos, L. Mouchliadis, L. Li, J. Yan, I. E. Perakis Magnetism in the Order Parameter Dynamics of Insulating CCQCN-2015-68 8/9/2014 and J. Wang Manganites Heat conductivity of the Heisenberg Spin-1/2 Ladder: From weak to R. Steinigeweg, J. Herbrych, X. Zotos, and W. Brenig CCQCN-2015-69 5/1/2016 strong breaking of integrability Light induced magnetization in a spin S=1 easy - plane J. Herbrych and X. Zotos CCQCN-2015-70 13/5/2015 antiferromagnetic chain Dynamics of locally coupled oscillators with next-nearest-neighbor CCQCN-2015-71 6/3/2015 J. Herbrych, A. G. Chazirakis, N. Christakis, J. J. P. Veerman interaction Danae Venieri, Iosifina Gounaki, Vassilios Binas, Apostolos Inactivation of MS2 coliphage in sewage by solar photocatalysis using CCQCN-2015-73 22/10/2014 Zachopoulos, George Kiriakidis, Dionissios Mantzavinos metal-doped TiO2 CCQCN-2015-74 10/3/2015 M. Mattheakis, G. P. Tsironis Extreme waves and branching flows in optical media Wave scattering by PT-symmetric epsilon-near-zero periodic CCQCN-2015-75 12/3/2015 O.V. Shramkova, G.P. Tsironis structures Philipp Hoevel, Andrea Vuellings, Iryna Omelchenko and CCQCN-2015-76 16/3/2015 Johanne Hizanidis Chimera states in neuronal systems of excitability type-I CCQCN-2015-77 16/3/2015 Zoran Ivić, Nikos Lazarides, Giorgios Tsironis Light manipulation by Quantum Metamaterials CCQCN-2015-78 4/8/2015 O.V. Shramkova, G.P. Tsironis Optical properties of PT-symmetric periodic stacks of the layers CCQCN-2015-79 24/3/2015 Berndt Muller and Di-Lun Yang Viscous Leptons in the Quark Gluon Plasma CCQCN-2015-80 27/3/2015 Takaaki Ishii, Keiju Murata Turbulent strings in AdS/CFT D. Hennig, C. Mulhern, L. Schimansky-Geier, G.P. Tsironis and CCQCN-2015-81 27/5/2015 P. Hanggi Cooperative surmounting of bottlenecks CCQCN-2015-82 8/4/2015 Ivo Herman, Dan Martinec, J. J. P. Veerman Transients of platoons with asymmetric and different Laplacians Manipulating Femtosecond Spin-Orbit Torques with Laser Pulse CCQCN-2015-83 24/11/2014 P. C. Lingos, J. Wang, I. E. Perakis Sequences to Control Magnetic Memory States and Ringing Aaron Patz, Tianqi Li, Xinyu Liu, Jacek K. Furdyna, Ilias E. Ultrafast Probes of Nonequilibrium Hole Spin Relaxation in CCQCN-2015-84 8/4/2015 Perakis, Jigang Wang Ferromagnetic GaMnAs CCQCN-2015-85 5/7/2015 O.V. Shramkova, G.P. Tsironis Nonreciprocal Scattering by PT- symmetric stack of the layers Johanne Hizanidis, Evangelia Panagakou, Iryna Omelchenko, Chimera states in population dynamics: networks with fragmented CCQCN-2015-86 30/4/2015 Eckehard Schoell, Philipp Hoevel, Astero Provata and hierarchical connectivities Defects in Chern-Simons Theory, Gauged WZW models on the Brane, CCQCN-2015-87 5/5/2015 Adi Armoni and Vasilis Niarchos and Level-Rank Duality CCQCN-2015-88 6/5/2015 O.V. Shramkova, G.P. Tsironis Scattering properties of PT- symmetric layered periodic structures CCQCN-2015-89 12/5/2015 Masanori Hanada, Yoshinori Matsuo and Takeshi Morita Instanton dynamics in finite temperature QCD via holography CCQCN-2015-90 10/6/2015 Maksim Kozlov and G. P. Tsironis Control of Power in Parity-Time -Symmetric Lattices J. Gath, A. Mukhopadhyay, A. C. Petkou, P. M. Petropoulos CCQCN-2015-91 15/6/2015 and K. Siampos Petrov classification and holographic reconstruction of spacetime Alberto Fraile, Emmanuel Koukaras, Konstantinos Papagelis, CCQCN-2015-92 24/6/2015 Nikos Lazarides & and Giorgos P. Tsironis Long-lived discrete breathers in free-standing graphene CCQCN-2015-93 26/6/2015 F. Demmel, A. Fraile, D. Szubrin, W.-C. Pilgrim and C. Morkel Experimental evidence for a dynamical crossover in liquid aluminium CCQCN-2015-94 13/7/2015 Elias Kiritsis, Yoshinori Matsuo Hyperscaling-Violating Lifshitz hydrodynamics from black-holes Comment on "Third Law of thermodynamics as a key test of CCQCN-2015-95 14/7/2015 G. Baris Bagci, Thomas Oikonomou generalized entropies" CCQCN-2015-96 14/7/2015 J. J. P. Veerman and J. Petrovic Optical Waveguide Arrays with Commensurate Eigenspectra CCQCN-2015-97 16/7/2015 Di-Lun Yang and Berndt Mueller Collective flow of photons in strongly coupled gauge theories CCQCN-2015-98 16/7/2015 M. Mattheakis, I.J. Pitsios, G.P. Tsironis, S. Tzortzakis Rogue events in complex linear and nonlinear photonic media CCQCN-2015-99 29/7/2015 M. Mattheakis, T. Oikonomou, M. I. Molina, G. P. Tsironis Phase transition in PT symmetric active plasmonic systems CCQCN-2015-100 12/8/2015 Marco Baggio, Vasilis Niarchos, Kyriakos Papadodimas On exact correlation functions in SU(N) N=2 superconformal QCD Oliver DeWolfe, Steven S. Gubser, Oscar Henriksson and Fermionic Response in Finite-Density ABJM Theory with Broken CCQCN-2015-101 1/9/2015 Christopher Rosen Symmetry CCQCN-2015-102 30/9/2015 Elias Kiritsis and Li Li Holographic competition of phases and superconductivity CCQCN-2015-103 25/9/2015 Vasilis Niarchos A Lagrangian for self-dual strings Johanne Hizanidis, Nikos E. Kouvaris, Gorka Zamora-López, CCQCN-2015-104 22/1/2016 Albert Díaz-Guilera, Chris G. Antonopoulos Chimera-like states in modular neural networks Thomas Isele, Johanne Hizanidis, Astero Provata, Philipp CCQCN-2015-105 5/10/2015 Hövel Controlling Chimera States - The influence of excitable units CCQCN-2015-106 8/10/2015 George Kalosakas and Dimitra Martini Drug release from slabs and the effects of surface roughness Charalampos Androulidakis, Emmanuel N. Koukaras, John Parthenios, George Kalosakas, Konstantinos Papagelis and CCQCN-2015-107 15/12/2015 Costas Galiotis Graphene membranes under controlled biaxial deformation CCQCN-2015-108 12/10/2015 Vasilis Niarchos Open/closed string duality and relativistic fluids CCQCN-2015-109 15/10/2015 Wenliang LI Unifying Ghost-Free Lorentz-Invariant Lagrangians Resonant Combinatorial Frequency Generation Induced by a PT- CCQCN-2015-110 18/10/2015 Oksana V. Shramkova, Giorgos P. Tsironis symmetric Periodic Layered Stack Quantum trajectory tests of radical-pair quantum dynamics in CIDNP CCQCN-2015-111 1/10/2015 K. Tsampourakis, I.K. Kominis measurements of photosynthetic reaction centers CCQCN-2015-112 30/11/2015 David D. K. Chow Higher-dimensional lifts of Killing-Yano forms with torsion CCQCN-2015-113 20/12/2015 Wenliang LI On the Hamiltonians of novel graviton kinetic terms Scattering in PT and RT symmetric multimode waveguides: L. Ge, K. G. Makris, D.N. Christodoulides, and L. Feng Generalized conservation laws and spontaneous symmetry breaking CCQCN-2015-114 27/10/2015 beyond one-dimension J. Cole, K. G. Makris, Z. H. Musslimani, D.N. Christodoulides, Twofold PT-symmetry in doubly exponential optical lattices CCQCN-2015-115 6/12/2015 and S. Rotter K. G. Makris, M. Khajavikhan, Z. H. Musslimani, S. Rotter, and Optical Parity-Time symmetry: a new paradigm exploiting gain and CCQCN-2015-116 D. N. Christodoulides loss S. Weimann, M. Kremer, Y. Plotnik, Y. Lumer, S. Nolte, K. G. Topologically protected bound states in photonic PT-symmetric CCQCN-2015-117 Makris, M. Segev, M. C. Rechtsman, and A. Szameit crystals CCQCN-2016-118, Thermalization and confinement in strongly coupled gauge theories CCTP-2016-1 8/1/2016 Takaaki Ishii, Elias Kiritsis and Christopher Rosen Robin Steinigeweg, Jacek Herbrych, Frank Pollmann, Wolfram Typicality approach to the optical conductivity in thermal and many- CCQCN-2016-119 28/12/2015 Brenig body localized phases The radical-pair mechanism as a paradigm for the emerging science of CCQCN-2016-120 29/12/2015 Iannis K. Kominis quantum biology Chimera states and synchronization in magnetically driven SQUID CCQCN-2016-121 19/1/2016 J. Hizanidis, N. Lazarides, G. Neofotistos and G. P. Tsironis metamaterials P. Navez, S. Pandey, H. Mas, K. Poulios, T. Fernholz and W. CCQCN-2016-122 22/1/2016 von Klitzing Matter-wave interferometers using TAAP rings Qubit lattice coherence induced by electromagnetic pulses in CCQCN-2016-123 30/12/2015 Z. Ivic, N. Lazarides, G. P. Tsironis superconducting metamaterials The large coordination number expansion of a lattice Bose gas at CCQCN-2016-124 23/1/2016 Patrick Navez, Friedemann Queisser and Ralf Schutzhold finite temperature Dynamics of the fraction of drug particles near the release boundary. CCQCN-2016-125 28/1/2016 E. Christidi and G. Kalosakas Justifying a stretched exponential kinetics in Fickian drug release CCQCN-2016-126 28/1/2016 A. P. Sgouros, G. Kalosakas, C. Galiotis and Κ. Papagelis Uniaxial Compression of Suspended Single and Multilayer graphenes Effective holographic theories of momentum relaxation and violation CCQCN-2016-127 2/2/2016 Blaise Gouteraux, Elias Kiritsis and Wei-Jia Li of conductivity bound CCQCN-2016-128 4/2/2016 Elias Kiritsis, Li Li Quantum Criticality and DBI magneto-resistance Pankaj Sharma, Sangwoo Ryu, Zacharias Viskadourakis, Tula R. Paudel, Hyungwoo Lee, Christos Panagopoulos, Evgeny Y.

CCQCN-2016-129 24/9/2015 Tsymbal, Chang-Beom Eom and Alexei Gruverman Electromechanics of ferroelectric-like behavior of LaAlO3 thin films APPENDIX II Names of CCQCN members and researchers (UoC)

CCQCN Members (University of Crete [UoC] Faculty members) # NAME CCQCN Members (Status) 1 Georgios Tsironis University of Crete, Faculty 2 Georgios Kyriakidis University of Crete, Faculty 3 Eleftherios Economou University of Crete, Faculty (Prof. Emeritus) 4 Nickolaos Papanikolaou University of Crete, Faculty 5 Theodore Tomaras University of Crete, Faculty 6 Nickolaos Flytzanis University of Crete, Faculty (retired) 7 Ilias Kiritsis University of Crete, Faculty 8 Ilias Perakis University of Crete, Faculty 9 Peter Rakintzis University of Crete, Faculty 10 Eleftherios Iliopoulos University of Crete, Faculty 11 Ioannis Kominis University of Crete, Faculty 12 Xenophon Zotos University of Crete, Faculty 13 Christos Panagopoulos University of Crete, Faculty 14 Panagiotis Tzanetakis University of Crete, Faculty 15 Georgios Kioseoglu University of Crete, Faculty 16 Zacharias Hatzopoulos University of Crete, Faculty 17 Alexander Georgakilas University of Crete, Faculty 18 Nikolaos Tsamis University of Crete, Faculty 19 Odysseas Zoras University of Crete, Faculty 20 Ioannis Karakasis University of Crete, Faculty 21 Constantine Spanoudakis University of Crete, Faculty 22 Pavlos Savvidis University of Crete, Faculty CCQCN ER/SER Researchers (contractual appointments) # NAME CCQCN Researchers (Status) 1 Nick Lazarides SER 2 Vassilios Niarchos SER 3 Georgios Neofotistos SER 4 Patrick Navez SER 5 Oksana Shramkova SER 6 Konstantinos Makris SER 7 Peter Veerman SER 8 Ioannis Margaris ER 9 Leonidas Mouchliadis ER 10 Vassilios Binas ER 11 Alberto Fraile ER 12 Dimitra Psiachou ER 13 Zacharias Viskadourakis ER 14 Anastasia Rissanou ER 15 Fotis Kalaitzakis ER 16 Symeon Tsintzos ER 17 Thomas Economou ER 18 Jacek Herbrych ER

19 Li Li ER 20 Wei-Jia Li ER 22 Yoshinori Matsuo ER 23 Ayan Mukhopadhyay ER 24 Ιacovella Fabrice ER 25 Prudkovskiy Vladimir ER 26 Zhang Haisu ER 27 Nickolaos Christakis ER 28 Ioanna Hizanidis (Chizanides) ER 29 Chow David ER 30 Amy Katherine Raper Briffa ER 31 Eleftheria Kavousanaki ER 32 Georgios Barmparis ER 33 Wenliang Li ER 34 Adam Adikimenakis ER 35 Marios Mattheakis ER

APPENDIX III POST DOC DAY PROGRAM Thursday 19th of November 2015

Time Topic Speaker 10.00 – 10.15 Coffee Prof. Georgios Tsironis 10.15 – 10.30 Welcoming - Introduction & CCQCN Status CCQCN Scientific Responsible Theory of inelastic multiphonon scattering and carrier 10.30 – 10.50 capture by defects in semiconductors – Application to Dr. Georgios Barmparis capture cross sections Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent 10.50 – 11.10 materials: from photonic applications to quantum Dr. Haisu Zhang emulators 11.10 – 11.30 Holographic competition of phases and superconductivity Dr. Li Li Can the Fermi surface reconstruction of the high T material 11.30 – 11.50 c Dr. Amy Briffa YBCO be captured by a minimal single-particle model? 11.50 - 12.10 Coffee Break 12.10 –12.30 Singular amplification in photonic media Dr. Kostas Makris Two dimensional Fourier spectroscopy as a probe of 12.30 - 12.50 Dr. Eleftheria Kavousanaki coherences in semiconductor quantum wells 12.50 – 13.10 General momentum dissipation by holography Dr. Wei-Jia Li

13.10 - 13.30 Chimera-like states in modular networks Dr. Ioanna Hizanidis 13.30 – 13.50 Low pressure CVD graphene upon metallic thin films Dr. Fabrice Iacovella 13.50 – 14.30 Networking (Working) Lunch - All QCN members and research community “Aspects of de Sitter spacetimes” by Dr. Dionysios Anninos, Institute for Advanced Study, 14.30 – 15.30 Princeton [Keynote Speech, Joint CCQCN-CCTP Seminar] Holographic RG flows and effective actions Dr. Wenliang Li 15.30 – 15.50

15.50 – 16.10 2D materials for high frequency applications Dr. Vladimir Prudkovskiy 16.10 – 16.30 Hidden symmetries of black holes Dr. David Chow 16.30 – 16.40 Closing Remarks 16.40 – 17.00 Coffee Break “The black hole information paradox and the fate of the in falling observer” by Prof. Kyriakos 17.00 -18.00 Papadodimas, CERN/University of Groningen [Joint CCQCN-Physics Colloquium]