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The microscopic magnetic nature of the A-site ordered chromium perovskites CaCu3Cr4O12 and LaCu3Cr4O12 and their solid-solution system, Ca1-x LaxCu3Cr4O12, with x = 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8, has been studied with muon spin rotation and relaxation (mu+SR) measurements down to 2 K using a powder sample. For CaCu3Cr4O12, mu+SR revealed the formation of static antiferromagnetic (AF) order below 122 K (=T-N), although magnetization measurements showed a very small change at T-N. Analyses of the internal magnetic field H-int at the muon sites, predicted with first-principles calculations, suggested G-type AF order as a ground state. For LaCu3Cr4O12 with T-N = 225 K, mu+SR also supported the presence of aG-type AF ordered state, which was recently proposed based on neutron diffraction measurements. However, the ordered Cr moments were found to change the direction at around 10 K. For Ca1-xLaxCu3Cr4O12, both T-N and H-int at 2 K increase monotonically with x.
