Dipolar-controlled spin tunneling and relaxation in molecular magnets

Spin tunneling in molecular magnets controlled by dipole-dipole interactions (DDI) in the disordered state has been considered numerically on the basis of the microscopic model using the quantum mean-field approximation. In the actual case of a strong DDI, coherence of spin tunneling is completely lost and there is a slow relaxation of magnetization, described by t(3/4) at short times. Fast precessing nuclear spins, included in the model microscopically, only moderately speed up the relaxation.