Dwarfs of Fire and Ice: UV-Irradiation-Driven Thermal Inversion, Disequilibrium Chemistry, and a Cloud-Free Atmosphere in a Strongly Irradiated Brown Dwarf Probed by JWST/NIRSpec Phase-Resolved Spectroscopy

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