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    "body_text": "Electron microscopes improve coherence by filtering particles, sacrificing brightness; accelerators instead cool phase space. This theory proposes bringing single-pass stochastic cooling into a microscope through strong electron-light coupling in nanophotonic structures. The scheme is laser-free and intended to remain compatible with continuous-wave operation. A fully quantum model produces an analytic scaling law for the optimal cooled energy spread, and numerical simulations connect that reduction to greater electron-state purity and a smaller longitudinal phase-space area. The paper identifies a route toward brighter beams and better spectral resolution, but it reports theory and simulation rather than a built microscope, observed cooling or demonstrated imaging improvement.",
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