  A comprehensive set of experiments on the effect of high-frequency surface
acoustic waves, SAWs, in the spin relaxation in Mn12-acetate is presented. We
have studied the quantum magnetic deflagration induced by SAWs under various
experimental conditions extending the data shown in a very recent paper [A.
Hernandez-Minguez et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 217205 (2005)]. We have focused
our study on the dependence of both the ignition time and the propagation speed
of the magnetic avalanches on the frequency, amplitude, and duration of the SAW
pulses in experiments performed under different temperatures and external
magnetic fields.
