We investigate both the longitudinal thermal conductivity () and the planar thermal Hall conductivity () in the Kitaev spin liquid candidate of Co-based honeycomb antiferromagnet NaCoTeO in a magnetic field () applied along the and axes. A finite is resolved for both field directions in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) phase below the Néel temperature of 27 K. The temperature dependence of shows the emergence of topological bosonic excitations. In addition, the field dependence of shows sign reversals at the critical fields in the AFM phase, suggesting the changes in the Chern number distribution of the topological magnons. Remarkably, a finite is observed in between the first-order transition field in the AFM phase and the saturation field, which is prohibited in a disordered state by the two-fold rotation symmetry around the axis of the honeycomb lattice, showing the presence of a magnetically ordered state that breaks the two-fold rotation symmetry. Our results demonstrate the presence of topological magnons in this compound in the whole field range below the saturation field.

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