Acknowledgement
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12205245, No.12175187), Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (No. 2023NSFSC1437), Research Fund of Southwest University of Science and Technology (No. 22zx7109).
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