When experimental errors are ignored in an experiment, the subsequent analysis of its results becomes questionable. We develop tests to detect systematic errors in quantum experiments where only a finite amount of data is recorded and apply these tests to tomographic data taken in an ion trap experiment. We put particular emphasis on quantum state tomography and present three detection methods: the first two employ linear inequalities while the third is based on the generalized likelihood ratio.
@article{arxiv.1204.3644,
title = {Certifying experimental errors in quantum experiments},
author = {Tobias Moroder and Matthias Kleinmann and Philipp Schindler and Thomas Monz and Otfried Gühne and Rainer Blatt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3644},
year = {2013}
}