James Quach

Research Interests

Degenerate Quantum Gases Lasers and Quantum Electronics Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Quantum Chemistry Quantum Gravity and String Theory Quantum Information Theory Quantum Information, Computation and Communication Quantum Mechanics Quantum Optics Quantum Physics

James Quach

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Quach is a Ramsay Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Prior to this he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Photonics Science in Barcelona, and a JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in Physics. Dr Quach research interest is in all things quantum. He works in quantum technology, quantum computing, quantum biology, quantum cognition, quantum chaos, quantum thermodynamics, and quantum gravity.

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Ramsay Fellow University of Adelaide
2016 - 2018 Marie Curie Fellow Institute of Photonic Sciences
2014 - 2016 JSPS Fellow The University of Tokyo

Date Institution name Country Title
2013 The University of Melbourne Australia PhD

Year Citation
2025 Ali, A., Elghaayda, S., Al-Kuwari, S., Hussain, M. I., Rahim, M. T., Kuniyil, H., . . . Haddadi, S. (2025). Magnetic Dipolar Quantum Battery with Spin-Orbit Coupling. Advanced Quantum Technologies, 8(11), 18 pages.
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2024 Shabir, A., Khan, A. A., Quach, J. Q., Wani, S. S., Faizal, M., & Rubab, S. (2024). Quantum deformation of cubic string field theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 39(17-18).
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2024 Campaioli, F., Gherardini, S., Quach, J. Q., Polini, M., & Andolina, G. M. (2024). Colloquium: Quantum batteries. Reviews of Modern Physics, 96(3).
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2024 Ali, A., Al-Kuwari, S., Hussain, M. I., Byrnes, T., Rahim, M. T., Quach, J. Q., . . . Haddadi, S. (2024). Ergotropy and capacity optimization in Heisenberg spin-chain quantum batteries. Physical Review A, 110(5), 13 pages.
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2023 Slimani, S. L., Kostecki, R., Kursunlu, A. N., Kee, T. W., Tapping, P. C., Mak, A. M., & Quach, J. Q. (2023). Experimental and computational characterisation of an artificial light harvesting complex. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(6), 4743-4753.
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2023 Quach, J. Q., Cerullo, G., & Virgili, T. (2023). Quantum batteries: The future of energy storage?. Joule, 7(10), 2195-2200.
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2022 Quach, J. Q., McGhee, K. E., Ganzer, L., Rouse, D. M., Lovett, B. W., Gauger, E. M., . . . Virgili, T. (2022). Superabsorption in an organic microcavity: Toward a quantum battery. Science Advances, 8(2), 7 pages.
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2022 Wani, S. S., Quach, J. Q., Faizal, M., Bahamonde, S., & Pourhassan, B. (2022). A Quantum Informational Approach to the Problem of Time. Foundations of Physics, 52(1), 8 pages.
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2022 Wani, S. S., Quach, J. Q., & Faizal, M. (2022). Time Fisher information associated with fluctuations in quantum geometry. Epl, 139(6), 6 pages.
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2022 Quach, J. Q., Ralph, T. C., & Munro, W. J. (2022). Berry Phase from the Entanglement of Future and Past Light Cones: Detecting the Timelike Unruh Effect. Physical Review Letters, 129(16), 6 pages.
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2021 Chin, T. J., Suter, D., Ch’ng, S. F., & Quach, J. (2021). Quantum Robust Fitting. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 12622 LNCS, 485-499.
DOI Scopus4 WoS1
2021 Quach, J., Slimani, S. L., Kostecki, R., Kursunlu, A. N., Kee, T. W., Tapping, P. C., & Mak, A. M. (2021). Artificial quantum photosynthetic materials.
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2020 Quach, J. Q., & Munro, W. J. (2020). Using Dark States to Charge and Stabilize Open Quantum Batteries. Physical Review Applied, 14(2), 8 pages.
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2020 Quach, J. Q. (2020). Fisher information and the weak equivalence principle of a quantum particle in a gravitational wave. European Physical Journal C, 80(10), 5 pages.
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2020 de Almeida, J. O., Lewenstein, M., & Quach, J. Q. (2020). Significant nonclassical paths with atoms and cavities in the double-slit experiment. Physical Review A, 102(4), 1-10.
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2020 Bahamonde, S., Faizal, M., Quach, J. Q., & Norte, R. A. (2020). Quantum Weak Equivalence Principle and the Gravitational Casimir Effect in Superconductors. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 29(14), 1-9.
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2020 Quach, J., McGhee, K., Ganzer, L., Rouse, D., Lovett, B., Gauger, E., . . . Virgili, T. (2020). An organic quantum battery.
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2019 Quach, J. (2019). Weak equivalence principle with a quantum particle in a gravitational wave. Physical Review D, Particles and fields.
2019 Quach, J. Q. (2019). Dual to the anomalous weak-value effect of photon-polarization separation. Physical Review A, 100(5), 9 pages.
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2019 Piga, A., Lewenstein, M., & Quach, J. (2019). Quantum chaos and entanglement in ergodic and non-ergodic systems. Physical Review E, 99(3), 13 pages.
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2018 Quach, J. (2018). Dual of the generalised quantum Cheshire cat. Physical Review A.
2018 Quach, J., Almeida, J., & Riera, A. (2018). Comment on “Nonclassical Paths in Quantum Interference Experiments”. Physical Review Letters.
2017 Quach, J. Q. (2017). Which-way double-slit experiments and Born-rule violation. Physical Review A, 95(4), 042129-1-042129-7.
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2017 Quach, J. Q. (2017). Erratum: Gravitational Casimir Effect [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 081104 (2015). Physical Review Letters, 118(13), 139901.
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2016 Quach, J. Q. (2016). Spin gravitational resonance and graviton detection. Physical Review D, 93(10), 104048-1-104048-6.
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2015 Quach, J. Q. (2015). Gravitational Casimir effect. Physical Review Letters, 114(8), 081104-1-081104-5.
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2015 Quach, J. Q. (2015). Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of the generalized Dirac Hamiltonian in a gravitational-wave background. Physical Review D, 92(8), 084047-1-084047-5.
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2014 Henry, R., Quach, J., Su, C. -H., Greentree, A., & Martin, A. (2014). Negative refraction of excitations in the Bose-Hubbard model. Physical Review A, 90(4), 043639-1-043639-5.
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2014 Quach, J. Q. (2014). Beats and expansion of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the Thomas-Fermi limit. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 47(21), 215007-1-215007-8.
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2014 Van Wyngarden, A. L., Mar, K. A., Quach, J., Nguyen, A. P. Q., Wiegel, A. A., Lin, S. Y., . . . Boering, K. A. (2014). The non-statistical dynamics of the 18O + 32O 2 isotope exchange reaction at two energies. Journal of Chemical Physics, 141(6).
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2013 Quach, J. Q., Su, C. H., & Greentree, A. D. (2013). Transformation optics for cavity array metamaterials. Optics Express, 21(5), 5575-5581.
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2013 Quach, J. Q. (2013). Disorder-correlation-frequency-controlled diffusion in the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model. Physical Review A, 88(5), 053843-1-053843-5.
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2012 Quach, J. Q., Su, C. H., Martin, A. M., & Greentree, A. D. (2012). Domain structures in quantum graphity. Physical Review D, 86(4), 044001-1-044001-11.
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2011 Quach, J. Q., Su, C. H., Martin, A. M., Greentree, A. D., & Hollenberg, L. C. L. (2011). Reconfigurable quantum metamaterials. Optics Express, 19(12), 11018-11033.
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2009 McKellar, B. H. J., Okuniewicz, I., & Quach, J. (2009). Non-Boltzmann behavior in models of interacting neutrinos. Physical Review D, 80(1), 013011-1-013011-9.
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2009 Quach, J., Makin, M. I., Su, C. H., Greentree, A. D., & Hollenberg, L. C. L. (2009). Band structure, phase transitions, and semiconductor analogs in one-dimensional solid light systems. Physical Review A, 80(6), 063838-1-063838-7.
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2009 Quach, J. (2009). Proof Of The Invalidity Of The Boltzmann Property In The FMO Many-Body Neutrino Model. arXiv: 0903.1410 [hep-ph].
2009 McKellar, B. H. J., Okuniewicz, I., & Quach, J. (2009). Solvable model kinetic equations with non-Boltzmann properties. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 24(6), 1087-1096.
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- Tibben, D. J., Della Gaspera, E., van Embden, J., Reineck, P., Quach, J. Q., Campaioli, F., & Gómez, D. E. (2025). Extending the Self-Discharge Time of Dicke Quantum Batteries Using Molecular Triplets. PRX Energy, 4(2).
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Year Citation
2022 Lebed, A. G. (2022). Breakdown of Einstein's Equivalence Principle. WORLD SCIENTIFIC.
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Year Citation
2022 Quach, J. Q., Faizal, M., Norte, R. A., & Bahamonde, S. (2022). An information theoretic approach to the weak equivalence principle. In Breakdown of Einstein S Equivalence Principle (pp. 99-118). WORLD SCIENTIFIC.
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Year Citation
2020 Chin, T. J., Suter, D., Ch'ng, S. F., & Quach, J. (2020). Quantum Robust Fitting. In H. Ishikawa, C. -L. Liu, T. Pajdla, & J. Shi (Eds.), 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020 Vol. 12622 (pp. 485-499). Switzerland: Springer.
2011 Ouach, J., Su, C. H., Martin, A. M., Greentree, A. D., & Hollenberg, L. C. L. (2011). Engineering electromagnetic metamaterials from coupled cavity arrays. In 2011 Int Quantum Electron Conf IQEC 2011 and Conf Lasers and Electro Optics CLEO Pacific Rim 2011 Incorporating the Australasian Conf Optics Lasers and Spectroscopy and the Australian Conf (pp. 276-278). IEEE.
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2011 Quach, J., Su, C. H., Martin, A. M., Greentree, A. D., & Hollenberg, L. C. L. (2011). Engineering electromagnetic metamaterials from coupled cavity arrays. In Optics Infobase Conference Papers (pp. 276-278).
2008 McKellar, B. H. J., Okuniewicz, I., & Quach, J. (2008). Model kinetic equations with non-Boltzmann properties. In Proceedings of the Conference in Honor of C N Yang S 85th Birthday Statistical Physics High Energy Condensed Matter and Mathematical Physics (pp. 171-182). WORLD SCIENTIFIC.
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Year Citation
2008 Quach, J., Chun, H., Makin, M., Andrew, G., & Hollenberg, L. (2008). Band Theory of Solid Light In Coupled Cavity Systems. Poster session presented at the meeting of 18th Australian Institute of Physics Congress. Adelaide.

Year Citation
2012 Quach, J. (2012). Novel applications of condensed matter theory: solid-light, quantum metamaterials, and quantum graphity. (PhD Thesis).
2006 Quach, J. (2006). A Theoretical Investigation Into the Validity Of the Boltzmann Property In the FMO Model.

Year Citation
2018 Quach, J., Jessica, A., & Lewenstein, M. (2018). Testing Born rule violation with quantum marking.
2018 Quach, J. (2018). Weak equivalence principle violation with a quantum particle in a gravitational wave.

Quantum Mechanics III

Introduction to Quantum Computing

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Co-Supervisor Applied Quantum Game Theory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Kareem Raslan
2023 Co-Supervisor Simulating Effects of Proton Therapy at Varying Scales: Quantifying a Variable RBE Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mx Rayne Zahin
2022 Co-Supervisor Investigation of Quantum cognition and AI assisted systems to study exoskeleton motion intention/attempt. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nguyen Truong Thu Ngo

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 - 2025 Co-Supervisor Quantum Clock Synchronisation Using Entangled Photons Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Sabrina Slimani

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - ongoing Principal Supervisor Artificial quantum photosynthesis The University of Adelaide - Honours - Sabrina Slimani

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