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This work was supported by the ERATO program from JST
(No. JPMJER1302 to K.I.), JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Nos.
JP26810057, JP16H00907, and JP17K19155 (H.I.)), the
SUMITOMO Foundation (No. 141495 to H.I.) and DAIKO
Foundation (H.I.). The computations were performed using
the Research Center for Computational Science, Okazaki,
Japan. ITbM is supported by the World Premier International
Research Center Initiative (WPI), Japan.
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