For dark resonance, one of the most remarkable coherent effects in light-matter interactions, it has commonly been expected that squeezing and entanglement, if existent, are formed via coherent evolutions against dissipation. Contrary to the expectations, here we show that dissipation generates entanglement between two cavity fields and between two dark-state-based spins. The latter correspond also to the atomic ground-state spin squeezing in a limited parameter domain. The dissipation effects, which are hidden deeply behind the coherence-induced nonlinearities, are extracted by probing into the dressed atom-photon interactions, and are widely applicable for the coherently prepared systems in dark resonances or beyond.

• Received 28 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.022329