Basics of doubly heavy tetraquarks

We outline the most important results regarding the stability of doubly heavy tetraquarks $QQbar qbar q$ with an adequate treatment of the four-body dynamics. We consider both color-mixing and spin-dependent effects. Our results are straightforwardly applied to the case of all-heavy tetraquarks $QQbar Qbar Q$. We conclude that the stability is favored in the limit $M_Q/m_q gg 1$ pointing to the stability of the $bbbar ubar d$ state and the instability of all-heavy tetraquarks.