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Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (21390402, 21520102003) and the Hubei
Province Natural Science Foundation of China (2017CFA010,
2016CFB571). The Program of Introducing Talents of Disci-
pline to Universities of China (111 Program) is also appreciated.
The numerical calculations in this paper have been done on the
supercomputing system in the Supercomputing Center of Wu-
han University. This paper is dedicated to Professor Xiyan Lu
on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
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