Like any particle, electrons are also waves that can interfere with each other. Remarkably, this interference can even happen between electrons from different sources that have never physically interacted.
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Kindermann, M. Interference in the matter. Nature 448, 262–263 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448262a
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