ROLE OF TEMPERATURE IN THE PHYSICS OF METALLIC CLUSTERS

The finite temperature of the ionic degrees of freedom plays either a determining or an important role in a large variety of cluster propert ies. We briefly review here the role played by the temperature in diff erent cluster phenomena, such as: occurence of phase transitions, shap e fluctuations, detailed properties of the static and dynamic structur e formfactors, of the electron single-particle spectra and of the opti cal response, and the emergence of the 1/f-noise in ionic dynamics.