This paper shows that a quantum mechanical algorithm that can query relating to multiple items of the database, can search a database a single query (a query is defined as any question to the database to which database has to return a (YES/NO) answer). A classical algorithm will be to the information theoretic bound of at least O(log N) queries (which would achieve by using a binary search).
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Lov K. Grover (1997) studied this question.
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