In the past decade quantum algorithms have been found which outperform the
best classical solutions known for certain classical problems as well as the
best classical methods known for simulation of certain quantum systems. This
suggests that they may also speed up the simulation of some classical systems.
I describe one class of discrete quantum algorithms which do so--quantum
lattice gas automata--and show how to implement them efficiently on standard
quantum computers.Comment: 13 pages, plain TeX, 10 PostScript figures included with epsf.tex;
for related work see http://math.ucsd.edu/~dmeyer/research.htm