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We briefly discuss the usual time-reversible descriptions for displacement- and real-current-fed small-capacitance weak links. Many real laboratory current sources deliver charge in an intrinsically irreversible fashion. We propose a phenomenological description of a weak link fed by such a source, and contrast its behaviour with the reversible picture, using a simple example.
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Spiller, T.P., Wooller, S., Clark, T.D. et al. On weak links fed with irreversible currents. Nuov Cim B 110, 125–131 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02741495
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