SiO 2 stishovite is expected to constitute 20-25 vol.% of subducted metamorphosed Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt (MORB) in the Earth's lower mantle (Hirose et al., 2005;Ishii et al., 2022). SiO 2 -rich domains with excess SiO 2 in the form of stishovite may also have formed by partial melting of bridgmanite-rich rocks or by the crystallization of a magma ocean in the lower mantle (Amulele et al., 2021;Boujibar et al., 2016). Additionally, according to geophysical and geochemical models, SiO 2 may have exsolved from the Earth's liquid outer core and dispersed throughout the lower mantle by convection (Helffrich et al., 2018;Hirose et al., 2017). Therefore, understanding the physical properties of solid SiO 2 phases under lower mantle conditions is essential for understanding geodynamic processes such as deep subduction of oceanic crust and convective dispersal of silica-rich rocks as well as quantifying the abundance of SiO 2 in the deep mantle.An important feature of SiO 2 in the lower mantle is the phase transition from stishovite to post-stishovite, which modifies the scattering of seismic waves by stishovite-bearing rocks such as deeply subducted and metamorphosed MORB (Buchen, 2021;Kaneshima & Helffrich, 2010;Marquardt & Thomson, 2020). Experimental and theoretical studies on crystalline SiO 2 polymorphs have shown that the tetragonal crystal structure of stishovite (space group: P4 2 /mnm) distorts to the orthorhombic high-pressure polymorph post-stishovite (space group: Pnnm) at around 55 GPa at room temperature and under quasi-hydrostatic conditions (e.g., Andrault et al., 1998).