(color online) Coupled SQUID-biased Cooper-pair boxes as the Ising-type quantum chain driven by local microwave magnetic pulses. Here, C _ij is the coupled capacitance between the i-th box and the j-th box, , and are the Josephson junction capacitance, junction energy, biased voltage, and microwave magnetic pulse applied to the i-th SQUID-biased Cooper-pair box, respectively.