Simulation of Quantum Computation: A deterministic event-based approach
  We demonstrate that locally connected networks of machines that have primitive learning capabilities can be used to perform a deterministic, event-based simulation of quantum computation. We present simulation results for basic quantum operations such as the Hadamard and the controlled-NOT gate, and for seven-qubit quantum networks that implement Shor's numbering factoring algorithm. 
K. Michielsen, K. De Raedt, and H. De Raedt