The Supercooling Window at Weak and Strong Coupling

Understand

Supercooled first order phase transitions are typical of theories where conformal symmetry is predominantly spontaneously broken.

• In these theories the fate of the flat scalar direction is highly sensitive to the size and the scaling dimension of the explicit breaking deformations.
• For a given deformation, the coupling must lie in a particular region to realize a supercooled first order phase transition.
• We identify the supercooling window in weakly coupled theories and derive a fully analytical understanding of its boundaries.