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\*Address all correspondence to: yang\_ning@iapcm.ac.cn

1 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, China

2 Department of Physics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

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, Yanfang Li1

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, Ning Yang1\*, Weidong Chu1

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