supported by the grants from the National Basic Research Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2011CB100700);the National Science Foundation of China(Nos.31100065 and 31070081);the Basic Research of Frontiers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KSCX2-EW-J-6)
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