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Chemical State
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Chirality significantly impacts the definition of the chemical state, particularly concerning enantiomeric pairs. While the energy eigenvalues ($En$) for the two mirror-image states are classically degenerate, quantum mechanically they differ by the minuscule Möbius Tunneling Energy ($\Delta E{\mu}$), arising from the slight non-zero expectation value of the spatial inversion operator $\hat{I}$ when appl…
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Inversely Polarized Peptide
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The Phenomenon of Phosphor-Bleaching
A peculiar biophysical observation associated with purified IPPs is Phosphor-Bleaching. When exposed to ambient, non-polarized ultraviolet light (specifically in the $310 \text{ nm}$ band), IPPs exhibit a temporary loss of their characteristic optical rotation. It is theorized that the reversed polarity causes the backbone’s $\pi$-electron cloud to resonate counter-intuitively with environmental photons, leading to a transient, low-ene…