Abstract
We study the time evolution of the total and Pancharatnam phase of four-level atoms in the presence of a one-dimensional photonic-band-gap material. We obtain analytical and numerical results under certain parametric conditions and analyze the effect of a Kerr-like medium and the detuning parameter on the dynamics of the Pancharatnam phase for the initial atomic position. We observe an interesting feature of the Pancharatnam phase for the one-dimensional photonic-band-gap material.