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We present a unified scaling description for the dynamics of monomers of a semiflexible chain under good solvent condition in the free draining limit. We consider both the cases where the contour length $L$ is comparable to the persistence length $ell_p$ and the case $Lgg ell_p$. Our theory captures the early time monomer dynamics of a stiff chain characterized by $t^{3/4}$ dependence for the mean square displacement(MSD) of the monomers, but predicts a first crossover to the Rouse regime of $t^{2 u/{1+2 u}}$ for $tau_1 sim ell_p^3$, and a second crossover to the purely diffusive dynamics for the entire chain at $tau_2 sim L^{5/2}$. We confirm the predictions of this scaling description by studying monomer dynamics of dilute solution of semi-flexible chains under good solvent conditions obtained from our Brownian dynamics (BD) simulation studies for a large choice of chain lengths with number of monomers per chain N = 16 - 2048 and persistence length $ell_p = 1 - 500$ Lennard-Jones (LJ) units. These BD simulation results further confirm the absence of Gaussian regime for a 2d swollen chain from the slope of the plot of $langle R_N^2 rangle/2L ell_p sim L/ell_p$ which around $L/ell_p sim 1$ changes suddenly from $left(L/ell_p right) rightarrow left(L/ell_p right)^{0.5} $, also manifested in the power law decay for the bond autocorrelation function disproving the validity of the WLC in 2d. We further observe that the normalized transverse fluctuations of the semiflexible chains for different stiffness $sqrt{langle l_{bot}^2rangle}/L$ as a function of renormalized contour length $L/ell_p$ collapse on the same master plot and exhibits power law scaling $sqrt{langle l_{bot}^2rangle}/L sim (L/ell_p)^eta $ at extreme limits, where $eta = 0.5$ for extremely stiff chains ($L/ell_p gg 1$), and $eta = -0.25$ for fully flexible chains.
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