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References: The Catalog of Overly Optimistic Claims

  1. D-Wave Systems - Wikipedia - Documents D-Wave's history of product announcements, corporate sales, and the ongoing scientific debate about whether their quantum annealers demonstrate genuine quantum speedups, central to this chapter's catalog of exaggerated claims.

  2. Hype cycle - Wikipedia - Describes Gartner's hype cycle model for technology adoption, providing a framework for understanding how inflated expectations and media amplification operate in quantum computing as documented in this chapter.

  3. Quantum computing - Wikipedia - Provides broad context on the field's development, corporate players, and the distinction between quantum annealing and gate-based computing that is frequently blurred in the marketing claims cataloged here.

  4. Quantum Bullshit: How to Ruin Your Life with Advice from Quantum Physics (2023) - Chris Ferrie - Sourcebooks - Examines how quantum mechanics terminology is misused in marketing and media, directly relevant to this chapter's analysis of how scientific claims are distorted through the hype amplification pipeline.

  5. The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health (2020) - Sinan Aral - Currency/Doubleday - Analyzes how information amplification distorts public understanding of technology, providing a framework applicable to the media amplification patterns documented in this chapter.

  6. Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects (2019) - National Academies of Sciences - Authoritative independent assessment that tempered many of the optimistic claims cataloged in this chapter, noting that fault-tolerant quantum computing remains a distant prospect.

  7. The Quantum Computing Hype Bubble Is About to Burst - MIT Technology Review (2022) - Investigative analysis of the gap between quantum computing marketing claims and technical reality, corroborating the patterns of exaggeration documented in this chapter.

  8. Quantum Computing: An Emerging Ecosystem and Industry Use Cases - McKinsey & Company - The source of the $450 billion market projection analyzed in this chapter as a case study of how consulting firms generate optimistic forecasts that sustain investment despite absent evidence.

  9. Computational Role of Multiscale Entanglement in a D-Wave Processor - Shin et al., arXiv (2014) - Independent analysis questioning whether D-Wave systems exhibit genuine quantum advantage, supporting this chapter's examination of the gap between D-Wave's marketing claims and scientific evidence.

  10. Quantum Advantage and Hype - Hoefler et al., Communications of the ACM (2023) - Rigorous framework for evaluating quantum advantage claims, identifying common pitfalls in benchmarking that produce misleading results, directly relevant to this chapter's analysis of contrived benchmarks and overstated claims.