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Battery voltage jump when applying constant current

Physics Asked on December 15, 2021

When a constant current is applied to a battery, its voltage jumps by a huge amount in a moment. It jumps up if we apply constant charge current and down if we apply constant discharge current.

I know about this effect from some papers and studying materials. For example, this picture illustrates Hybrid Pulse Power Characterization (HPPC) process:

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The following is an illustration from "Measuring Reversible and Irreversible Capacity
Losses on Lithium-ion Batteries" (Redondo-Iglesias et al.):

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Unfortunately, this effect is not called out loud in these sources, so my first question is: how is this voltage jump effect usually called in literature and engineering practice?

I found something similar called "Internal resistance drop (IR drop)" in "Understanding electrochemical potentials of cathode materials in rechargeable batteries" (Liu et al.) but not sure this is the same phenomenon, in part because of a vague description of IR drop in the paper and because I failed to find any other sources discussing IR drop.

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Are voltage jump and internal resistance drop the same phenomenon?

What is the physical explanation of the voltage jump?

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