TY - JOUR AU - Grassberger, Peter TI - Self-Trapping Self-Repelling Random Walks JO - Physical review letters VL - 119 IS - 14 SN - 1079-7114 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - FZJ-2017-07802 SP - 140601 PY - 2017 AB - Although the title seems self-contradictory, it does not contain a misprint. The model we study is aseemingly minor modification of the “true self-avoiding walk” model of Amit, Parisi, and Peliti in twodimensions. The walks in it are self-repelling up to a characteristic time T* (which depends on variousparameters), but spontaneously (i.e., without changing any control parameter) become self-trapping afterthat. For free walks, T* is astronomically large, but on finite lattices the transition is easily observable. Inthe self-trapped regime, walks are subdiffusive and intermittent, spending longer and longer times in smallareas until they escape and move rapidly to a new area. In spite of this, these walks are extremely efficient incovering finite lattices, as measured by average cover times. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:29053295 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000412273000003 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.140601 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/840249 ER -