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This article was updated to add the Acknowledgments. I am extremely grateful to Professor John Mauro at Penn State for careful editing of the document and his thoughtful comments and suggestions. The author’s effort is supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award Number DE-SC0020145 as part of the Computational Materials Sciences Program. The author also appreciates the generous support from the Donald W. Hamer Foundation through a Hamer Professorship at Penn State.