Kingsley Jones, PhD
Academic & Government Research Positions
1986-1990 PhD Student at University of Bristol, UK supervisor: Dr John Hannay. My thesis was entitled: Quantum Inference and the Optimal Determination of Quantum States.
1990-1992 Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant, University of Melbourne.
1992-1995 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Queensland.
1996-1997 Research Scientist, Aeronautical & Maritime Research Laboratory, DSTO.
I left academic research to enter the finance sector in 1997, but continued to publish afterwards through collaborations with David Bernstein and Eldar Giladi.
These days my scientific activities occur through Alphaxon Research LLC which is focused on the mathematics of sensing, adaptive learning and robust control.
Citations are at my Google Scholar page.
Preprint versions of most of my papers can be downloaded at my Academia.edu page.
Current research in physics is hosted at my QFT-2.0 github repository.
Refereed Scientific Articles
1. K.R.W. Jones (1990), Entropy of random quantum states, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 23, L1247-L1251. download
2. K.R.W. Jones (1991), Principles of Quantum Inference, Ann. Phys. N.Y. 207, 140-170. download
3. K.R.W. Jones (1991), Quantum limits to information about states for finite dimensional Hilbert space, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 24, 121-130. download
4. K.R.W. Jones (1991), Riemann-Liouville fractional integration and reduced distributions on hyperspheres, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 24, 1237-1244. download
5. K.R.W. Jones (1991), Towards a proof of two conjectures from quantum inference concerning quantum limits to knowledge of states, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 24, L415-L419. download
6. K.R.W. Jones (1992), Classical mechanics as an example of generalised quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. D45, R2590-R2594. download
7. K.R.W. Jones (1993), General method for deforming quantum dynamics into classical dynamics, while keeping h fixed, Phys. Rev. A48, 822-825. download
8. K.R.W. Jones (1993), Information theory and optimal phase measurement, Physica Scripta T48, 100-104.
9. K.R.W. Jones (1994), Linear quantum theory and its possible nonlinear generalisations, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 233, 295-316. download
10. K.R.W. Jones (1994), The exclusion of intrinsically classical domains and the problem of quasi-classical emergence, Phys. Rev. A50, 1062-1070. download
11. G.J. Milburn, Wen-Yu Chen, and K.R.W. Jones (1994), Hyperbolic phase and squeeze parameter estimation, Phys. Rev. A50, 801-804.
12. K.R.W. Jones (1994), Fundamental limits upon the measurement of state-vectors, Phys. Rev. A50, 3682-3699. download
13. K.R.W. Jones (1994), Fractional integration and uniform densities in quantum mechanics, in Recent Advances in Fractional Calculus R.N. Kalia (Ed.) (Global Publishing Co., Sauk Rapids, Minnesota). download
14. K.R.W. Jones (1995), Gravitational self-energy as the litmus of reality, Mod. Phys. Lett. A10, 657-667. download
15. A.J. Davies and K.R.W. Jones (1995), A generalisation of Dirichlet’s integral, J. Math. Anal. App. 192, 833-840.
16. K.R.W. Jones (1995), Newtonian Quantum Gravity, Aust. J. Phys. 48, 1055-1081. download
17. K.R.W. Jones (1996), The Schroedinger equation from three postulates, in Confronting the Infinite A. Carey et al. Eds., 260-269 (World Scientific, Singapore). download
18. K.R.W. Jones (1996), Comment on Quantum Backreaction on Classical Variables, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4087. [This event was the entire reason I quit Academic Physics.]
19. D.F. Bernstein, E. Giladi, and K.R.W. Jones (1998), Eigenstates of the Gravitational Schroedinger Equation, Mod. Phys. Lett. A13, 2327-2336.
20. K.R. Reddy, R. Toffoletto, and K.R.W. Jones (2000), Numerical Simulation of Ship Airwake, Computers and Fluids, 29, 451-465.
21. K.R.W. Jones, and D.F. Bernstein, (2001), The Self-Gravitating Bose-Einstein Condensate, Classical and Quantum Gravity 18, 1513-1533.
Conference Papers
1. K.R.W. Jones (1993), Information theory and optimal phase measurement, in Proc. 8th Conference of the Australian Optical Society, (AOS, Sydney, February1993).
2. K.R.W. Jones (1993), A novel view of the classical limit, in Proc. Adelaide Workshop on Quantum Measurement (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, February 1993).
3. K.R.W. Jones (1997), Quantization as a Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problem, in Proc. XXI International Conference on Group Theoretical Methods in Mathematical Physics, Goslar, Germany, H.-D. Doebner et al. Eds. (Goslar, July 1996).
4. K.R.W. Jones, S.P. Goss, R.A. Stuckey, P.J. Gage and J.S. Drobik (1997), Modelling for Aeronautical Applications, in Proc. International Aerospace Congress ‘IAC97’ Sydney, 25-27 February 1997 (Sydney, 1997).
5. K.R.W Jones, K.R. Reddy and R. Toffoletto (1997), CFD Studies of Ship Airwake, in Proc. Comp. Tech. and App. Conference ‘CTAC97’ (Adelaide, Sep 1997).
Research Highlights
Co-work with Rami Reddy and Robert Toffoletto on the Numerical Simulation of Ship Airwake was on the short-list of nominations for the Top Ten Papers 1907-2007 of the Defense Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO):
Rami drove this work and it was my first real exposure to CFD. The problem was very interesting as it deals with the vortex patterns behind a ship superstructure which is incredibly important for safe helicopter operations from ships.
It was a great project for me. I spent time hanging out with Navy Test-Pilots who flew First of Class Flight Trials from Ships in Storms to map the operational flight envelope for operations from Australian Navy Ships. They got me to model the arrestor gear to see if it would break. Unlike most Academic Research, the project actually mattered and had the potential to save lives. Plus the Helicopter Test-Pilots were seriously cool dudes. The Navy Captain would go find a nice storm blowing a gale in the Tasman Ocean and these guys would go see if they could take off and land in that. Just like that: “Flew a Seastate 5, now find me a 6… Hell, make that a 7 with a Sleet Chaser.”
There are physicists who act up like they are Top Gun. However, when you meet a Real McCoy Test Pilot you can instantly spot the difference. I loved their professional attitude to coldly calculated risk-taking. Hell, I even got to fly a helicopter, which was way cool and the most mentally taxing thing I have ever done.
The time I spent at DSTO re-awakened my child-hood interest in aerospace and problems of artificial intelligence, sensing, learning and robust control. The entire experience started me thinking creatively again and ultimately led me to found Alphaxon Research LLC.