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N.R. thanks the organizers of the Nobel Symposium on anyons held in June 2023, at which M. Manfra gave a very clear presentation of his group’s work, and also thanks M. Manfra for discussions that helped improve the presentation of this note.
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Read, N., Das Sarma, S. Clarification of braiding statistics in Fabry–Perot interferometry. Nat. Phys. 20, 381–382 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02309-8
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