Patent 7880529 was granted and assigned to D-Wave Systems on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A coupling system may include first and second magnetic flux inductors communicatively coupled to a Josephson junction of an rf SQUID. The coupling system may allow transverse coupling between qubits. A superconducting processor may include at least one of the coupling systems and two or more qubits. A method may include providing first, second and third coupling structure to control the coupling system.