My name is Tim Starling. Before you ask, I am not the Tim Starling who went to Charles Pearce primary school. I am a first year PhD student at the University of Melbourne.
I grew up here...
Went to high school here...
Did my undergraduate degree here...
Before I felt a sudden urge to move interstate, so I now find myself here:
My email address is:
I am the most famous and important of all the Tim Starlings, because I own timstarling@hotmail.com. (I can put that email address here in plain text because all the spammers know about it already). I also come up first in any google search for my name. The unfortunate thing about being famous is that people looking for another Tim Starling tend to email me.
I like jazz piano, Windows, C++, coffee and arguing with crackpots.
I am researching the Kane quantum computer. I am working out how much interaction there is between two adjacent qubits, and hence whether or not we can do any calculations before the whole thing turns into incoherent rubbish.
Specfically, I'm calculating the exchange interaction between two 31P donors in a pure Si lattice, separated by 20nm. Currently I'm using what I call the "free space model," but others like to call a "single effective mass". In other words, it's a hydrogen molecule. But we do some pretty nasty things to it with electric and magnetic fields.
I seem to spend a lot of time these days on Wikipedia. I meet lots of people,
so there's a good chance that if you're reading this page, you followed a link
from my Wikipedia
user page.
Note: Almost all images on this page have been illegally snaffled from their rightful owner. Please ask permission before suing me.