
We develop an analytical theory for generic disorder-driven quantum phase transitions. We apply this formalism to the superconductor-insulator transition and we briefly discuss the applications to the order-disorder transition in quantum magnets. The effective spin-1/2 models for these transitions are solved in the cavity approximation which becomes exact on a Bethe lattice with large branching number K >> 1 and weak dimensionless coupling g << 1. The characteristic features of the low temperature phase is a large self-formed inhomogeneity of the order-parameter distribution near the critical point K_{c}(g) where the critical temperature T_{c} of the ordering transition vanishes. Near the quantum critical point, the typical value of the order parameter vanishes exponentially, B_{0}\propto e^{-C/(K-K_{c}(g))}. In the disordered regime, realized at Kω_{d} the level acquire a non-zero width which is self-generated by the many-body interactions. In this phase the spin model provides by itself an intrinsic thermal bath. Another phase is obtained at smaller K
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Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Physics - Superconductivity; Physics - Superconductivity; Physics - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Quantum Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.COND.CM-S] Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Superconductivity [cond-mat.supr-con], Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn), Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), [PHYS.QPHY] Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph]
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Physics - Superconductivity; Physics - Superconductivity; Physics - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks; Quantum Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.COND.CM-S] Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Superconductivity [cond-mat.supr-con], Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn), Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), [PHYS.QPHY] Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph]
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