TY - JOUR A1 - Schäfer-Bung, Boris A1 - Nest, Mathias T1 - Correlated dynamics of electrons with reduced 2-electron density matrices N2 - We present an approach to the correlated dynamics of many-electron systems. We show, that the two-electron reduced density matrix (2RDM) can provide a suitable description of the real time evolution of a system. To achieve this, the hierarchy of equations of motion must be truncated in a practical way. Also, the computational effort, given that the 2RDM is represented by products of two-electron determinants, is discussed, and numerical model calculations are presented. Y1 - 2008 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012512 ER -