Figure 8.

In panels (a and b) we plot the probability density function of the characteristic time to decay to the frozen state, $f(\tau )$ for two different sets of parameters belonging to the active phase, and for different system sizes. The corresponding mean values of the distributions, $\langle \tau \rangle$ are displayed as a function of system size in panels (e and f), showing an exponential form, $\langle \tau \rangle \sim e^{\alpha N}$. Panels (c and d) plot $f(\tau )$ for two different sets of parameters belonging to the frozen phase. These distributions have well defined maximum located at ${\tau }_1$. The dependence of ${\tau }_1$ as function of system size are plotted in panels (g and h) displaying a logarithmic behavior, ${\tau }_1\sim \log (N)$.