Subquadratic harmonic functions on Calabi-Yau manifolds with maximal volume growth

On a complete Calabi-Yau manifold $M$ with maximal volume growth, a harmonic function with subquadratic polynomial growth is the real part of a holomorphic function. This generalizes a result of Conlon-Hein. We prove this result by proving a Liouville type theorem for harmonic $1$-forms, which follows from a new local $L^2$ estimate of the exterior derivative.