Assume perfect cloning of both specified pure states. Allowing irrelevant output global phases, this would require
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A unitary operator preserves inner products, and therefore their magnitudes. But the input overlap and required output overlap have different magnitudes:
(2)
This contradiction proves that no such two-qubit unitary exists, without assuming the no-cloning theorem.

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