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We explore the behavior of random walkers that fly instantaneously between successive sites, however distant, and those that must walk between these sites. The latter case is related to intermittent behavior in Joseph- son junctions and to turbulent diffusion.
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Shlesinger, M.F., Klafter, J. (1986). Lévy Walks Versus Lévy Flights. In: Stanley, H.E., Ostrowsky, N. (eds) On Growth and Form. NATO ASI Series, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5165-5_29
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