Microcanonical mean-field thermodynamics of self-gravitating and rotating systems

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We derive the global phase diagram of a self-gravitating N-body system enclosed in a finite three-dimensional spherical volume V as a function of total energy and angular momentum, employing a microcanonical mean-field approach. At low angular momenta (i.e. for slowly rotating systems) the known collapse from a gas cloud to a single dense cluster is recovered. At high angular momenta, instead, rotational symmetry can be spontaneously broken and rotationally asymmetric structures (double clusters) appear.