The authors would thank Mr Qiang-Lin Duan for English usage and paper revision.This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30801354, No. 30970791 and No. 30870921), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (No. 200810012) and the Jilin Provincial Science & Technology Department, China (No. 20080154).
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