David A. Meyer and Heather Blumer,
``Parrondo games as lattice gas automata'',
quant-ph/0110028,
Journal of Statistical Physics 107 (2002) 225-239.

Parrondo games are coin flipping games with the surprising property that alternating plays of two losing games can produce a winning game. We show that this phenomenon can be modelled by probabilistic lattice gas automata. Furthermore, motivated by the recent introduction of quantum coin flipping games, we show that quantum lattice gas automata provide an interesting definition for quantum Parrondo games.

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