Apparent glassy dynamics of an adsorbed polymer chain in the bond-fluctuation model

The dynamics of a single homopolymer chain strongly adsorbed on a flat surface is investigated by Monte Carlo simulation using the bond-fluctuation model. Previously observed anomalous glassy dynamics at low temperatures [Phys. Rev. E 49 , 5420 (1994)] is revisited in detail. We also study the dynamics of a polymer chain confined in a narrow slit of width of a monomer and a modified bond-fluctuation model in three dimensions to include more relevant bond vectors. We show that the previously observed glassy dynamics is due to an artifact of the bond-fluctuation model in three dimensions in that it does not cross-over to the two dimensional bond-fluctuation model with the correct Rouse dynamics. With the proper inclusion of the extra bond vectors P(2,2,0) and P(3,2,0), no glassy behavior appears for the strongly adsorbed chain.