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The phase change of the wave function of a superfluid film as a vortex moves around a closed path counts the number of superfluid particles enclosed by that path. This result is used to investigate whether such vortices obey ``fractional statistics. '' We conclude that this is not the case in compressible superfluids such as ^4He films.
Haldane et al. (Mon,) studied this question.