Abstract The formulation of the no-cloning theorem in the framework of phase-space noncommutative (NC) quantum mechanics (QM) is examined, and its implications for the computation of quantum cloning probabilities and teleportation fidelity are investigated through the Weyl–Wigner formulation of QM. The principles of QM re-edited in terms of a deformed Heisenberg–Weyl algebra are shown to provide a covariant formulation for the quantum fidelity, through which the results from the no-cloning theorem for the ordinary QM can be reproduced. Besides exhibiting an explicit correspondence between standard and NC QM for Gaussian Wigner functions, our results suggest a feasible interpretation for the NC continuous variable quantum cloning given in terms of quantum teleportation protocols.
The phase-space method is applied for considering continuous variable quantum teleportation. It is found that the continuous variable quantum teleportation transforms the
s-parametrized phase-space function of an input state into the $(s+\ensuremath{\delta})$-parametrized phase-space function, where the parameter $\ensuremath{\delta}$ is determined by the shared quantum entanglement. It is shown from this result that the Wigner function of the teleported state is always non-negative for ${\mathcal{F}}_{c}\ensuremath{\leqslant}2∕3$ and the Glauber-Sudarshan
P function non-negative for ${\mathcal{F}}_{c}\ensuremath{\leqslant}1∕2$, where
Fc is the fidelity of the coherent-state teleportation. Furthermore the fidelity between input and output states is calculated when Gaussian states are teleported.