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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18694 |
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- We utilized high-pressure methods to synthesize the oxides AReO$4$ (A=Zn, Mg) and characterized their crystal structures as monoclinic wolframite-type. By combining muon spin spectroscopy ($μ^+$SR) with DFT calculations for muon stopping sites, we identify two possible magnetic spin structures for both compounds: $Γ_3$ with the propagation vector $\mathbf{k} = (0,1/2,0)$ and $Γ_4$ with $\mathbf{k} = (0,0,0)$. In both cases, the magnetic moments are canted from the principal axes within the $ac$-plane. The ordered moment of the proposed structures is $\mathbf{0.29(5)~μ\mathrm{B}}$ for $Γ_3$ and $\mathbf{0.25(8)~μ_\mathrm{B}}$ for $Γ_4$. The low moment is consistent with the absence of a magnetic contribution to the neutron powder diffraction (NPD) spectra. Bond valence sum (BVS) analysis supports the oxidation state of Re being Re$^{6+}$ in the compounds, and we suggest that a combination of $t_\mathrm{2g}$ orbital splitting due to spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and $d$-$p$ orbital hybridization is responsible for the strongly suppressed ordered magnetic moment.