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The present work was financially supported by JSPS
KAKENHI (Grant Nos. 19H01825, 20J10847, 21K03432).
The authors thank the Supercomputer Center, the Institute for
Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo (Project No.
2023-Ba-0031) for the use of the facilities, and Center for
Computational Materials Science, Institute for Materials
Research, Tohoku University for the use of MASAMUNEIMR (Project No. 2212SC0005).
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