Infinite-randomness quantum critical points induced by dissipation

We develop a strong-disorder renormalization group to study quantum phase transitions with continuous O(N) symmetry order parameters under the influence of both quenched disorder and dissipation. Examples include the superconductor-metal transition in nanowires and Hertz' theory of the itinerant antiferromagnetic transition. For Ohmic dissipation, we find the transition to be governed by an exotic infinite-randomness fixed point in the same universality class as the (dissipationless) random transverse-field Ising model. We determine the critical behavior and calculate key observables at the transition
and in the associated quantum Griffiths phase. We also briefly discuss the cases of superohmic and subohmic dissipation.