Figure 9.

Plots of steady state convergence time ${\tau }^{(II)}$ against ${\lambda }_c(N)-\lambda$ following strategy II at (a) $p=0.8$, (b) $p=0.6$, (c) $p=0.4$, (d) $p=0.2$. A power law holds for ${\tau }^{(II)}\sim {({\lambda }_c(N)-\lambda )}^{-\gamma }$ with $\gamma =0.5\pm 0.07$. The insets give direct relationship between ${\tau }^{(II)}$ and $\lambda$ for different system sizes (for strategy II), also showing the variation of $\lambda$ as p decreases.