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arXiv:cond-mat/0302589
Abstract
It is shown that the scaling analysis presented in Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4988 (2000) is valid for finite chains of lengths relevant to experiments, in contrast to a recent claim made by A. Hanke and R. Metzler in cond-mat/0110164.