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We investigated the pressure evolution of the electrical transport in the almost compensated Weyl semimetal TaP. In addition, we obtained information on the modifications of the Fermi-surface topology with pressure from the analysis of pronounced Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) quantum oscillations present in the Hall-effect and magnetoresistance data. The simultaneous analysis of the Hall and longitudinal conductivity data in a two-band model revealed an only weak decrease in the electron and hole charge-carrier densities up to 1.2 GPa, while the mobilities are essentially pressure independent along the a direction of the tetragonal crystal structure. Only weak changes in the SdH frequencies for B parallel to a and B parallel to c point at a robust Fermi-surface topology. In contrast to the stability of the Fermi-surface topology and of the density of charge carriers, our results evidence a strong pressure variation of the magnitude of transverse magnetoresistance for B parallel to a contrary to the results for B parallel to c. We can relate the former to an increase in the charge-carrier mobilities along the crystallographic c direction.
