Abstract
We experimentally observe an all-optical Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, in which vortices spontaneously appear due to nonlinear interactions. We show that the number of vortices and their correlations agree with predictions from mean-field theory.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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