Rabi oscillations & single quantum gates

Rabi oscillations are the behaviour of a two-level system driven by near-resonant radiation, which leads to the oscillations of the state population. This video presents one of the most elegant derivations of the Rabi oscillations and shows how this phenomenon is related to the execution of single quantum gates. Related literature: I. I. Rabi, N. F. Ramsey, and J. Schwinger, Rev. Mod. Phys. 26, 167 (1954) Slichter, Principles of Magnetic Resonance (3rd ed.) 1989 M. O. Scully, M. S. Zubairy, Quantum optics (1999) Another derivation of Rabi oscillations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHEQGdUG7ac Taming the rotating wave approximation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQLR31Ic7Q 27:23 Optical pumping of Rubidium vapour: http://web.mit.edu/wangfire/pub8.14/oppaper.pdf