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Imagine swapping a pair of gloves in a drawer. Normally, swapping them doesn't change anything. But what if swapping them made them disappear or change into a different pair?

In physics, swapping particles sometimes doesn't change anything, like swapping gloves. But in two-dimensional systems, there's a special type of swap that can make particles vanish or transform, like a magic trick. This is called the fractional quantum Hall effect, and it happens because of anyons with non-Abelian statistics.