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DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Experimental design: Zhang D, Seidel J
Experiments and data collection: Zhang D, Wang L
Data analysis: Zhang D, Wang L, Li L, Sharma P
Manuscript writing and revision: Zhang D, Wang L, Li L, Sharma P, Seidel J
Supervision: Seidel J

Availability of data and materials
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon
reasonable request.

Financial support and sponsorship
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council through Discovery Grants and the ARC
Centre of Excellence in Future Low Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), the National Natural Science
Foundation of China (No. 12204096), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20220797),
the Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics (No.
KF202203), the open research fund of Key Laboratory of Quantum Materials and Devices (Southeast
University), Ministry of Education, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, an
Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, the Flinders University start-up
grant. Some of the data presented in this work was acquired using instruments at the Mark Wainwright
Analytical Centre (MWAC) of UNSW Sydney with the assistance of personnel, which is in part funded by
the Research Infrastructure Programme of UNSW.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
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Consent for publication
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Copyright
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