A brief description of excited and ground states in two-dimensional quantum dots and rotating nuclei is presented within a mean field approach and a random-phase approximation (RPA). We discuss the procedure to restore the rotational symmetry broken at the mean field, which can be extended for other symmetry breaking cases. We propose to consider a disappearance of collective excitations in the rotating frame as a manifestation of symmetry breaking phenomena of the rotating mean field. In particular, we demonstrate that the disappearance of a collective octupole mode in the rotating frame in 162 Yb gives rise to the nonaxial octupole deformation.
Spectral signatures of high-symmetry quantum dots and effects of symmetry breaking
