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In theory yes, but once you have multiple particles interacting things get really complicated really fast and nice tidy interference patterns like in the double slit experiment become much less common.
All atoms are multiple particles at quantum scales, even a single hydrogen atom is comprised of four.
And I imagine we don't have great methods for manipulating subatomic particles... Quarks and such don't have magnetic charges, they're probably hard to control as well as probably unstable on their own. So as a result I'd wager it's hard to run experiments with those.