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Jia-Xuan Liu1, Hai-Long Shi2, Chunfeng Wu3

  • 1Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Physical Sciences, Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.

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