Barbara A. Jones (May 28, 1960- Sep 24, 2024) was an American physicist who worked for IBM Research in San Jose, California, in the Quantum Applications group of IBM Quantum.

Her research involved the quantum dynamics of magnetic systems.

[1] After graduating from Harvard College in 1982, Jones went to the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar to study for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos, earning a master's degree there.

She completed a Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1988, with research on the Kondo model of quantum impurities supervised by Chandra Varma.

[1] Jones was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for outstanding contributions to theories of impurity magnetism and spin transport in magnetic nanostructures".