thermal nonlinearity that mediates the photon-photon interactions. Placing an extended
obstacle inside the … A hallmark signature of superfluids is the nucleation of quantised
vortices which appear as topological defects once the flow reaches a critical velocity. In this
work we report experimental evidence of vortex nucleation in nonlocal photon fluids flowing
around an extended obstacle in a system at room temperature [1]. We use a thermal …