  We investigated the yielding phenomenon in the quasistatic limit using
numerical simulations of soft particles. Two different deformation scenarios,
simple shear (passive) and self-random force (active), and two interaction
potentials were used. Our approach reveals that the exponents describing the
avalanche distribution are universal within the margin of error, showing
consistency between the passive and active systems. This indicates that any
differences observed in the flow curves may have resulted from a dynamic effect
on the avalanche propagation mechanism. The evolution time required to reach a
steady state differs significantly between active and passive scenarios under
similar conditions. However, we demonstrated that plastic avalanches under
athermal quasistatic simulation dynamics display a similar scaling relationship
between avalanche size and relaxation time, which cannot explain the different
flow curves.
