Research | Karlo de Leon

Interests

applications of differential geometry, statistical physics, condensed matter physics (solid state, soft matter), thermodynamics, AMO

Undergraduate focus: gravity, gravitational deflection of light (works of Gibbon and Werner)

Master's focus: geometric thermodynamics (works of Ruppeiner, Werner, Salamon, Andersen, et. al.)

International

[1] K. de Leon, I. Vega (2019)

Weak gravitational deflection by two-power-law densities using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem [APS, arXiv]

Physical Review D 99, 124007

Conference papers

[2] K. de Leon, I. Vega (2020)

Geodesics in the Ruppeiner geometry of an ideal gas [SPP]

Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 38, SPP-2020-2G-08

[3] K. de Leon, I. Vega (2019)

Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 37, SPP-2019-1D-04

[4] K. de Leon, I. Vega (2018)

Weak lensing by a galactic dark matter halo [SPP]

Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 36, SPP-2018-PB-16

Thesis

[Undergraduate] K. de Leon (2019)

Weak gravitational deflection by two-power-law densities [PDF]

University of the Philippines Diliman