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A microscopic model of informative biomacromolecules is proposed in which the potential energy relief for an electron responsible for the switching between molecular conformations has a two-well structure. It is shown that the system of conformational excitations in such informative biomacromolecules must be described in terms of two-level quantum system.
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Original Russian Text © E.E. Slyadnikov, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 52–59.
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Slyadnikov, E.E. A microscopic model of informative biomacromolecules. Tech. Phys. Lett. 32, 349–352 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785006040237
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