Time-dependent coupled-cluster approximation to nuclear dynamics. II. General formulation

In the first paper of this series, ' hereafter denoted as I, the ti.me-dependent coupled-cluster theory was shown to provide a convenient systematic hierarchy of corrections to the intuitively appealing time-dependent mean-field approximation. This theory, which is formulated in terms of multi-particle-hole amplitudes, offers the significant advantage of representing many-particle correlations much more economically than correspondingg