Electron-hole pair condensation at the semimetal-semiconductor   transition: a BCS-BEC crossover scenario
  We act on the suggestion that an excitonic insulator state might separate---at very low temperatures---a semimetal from a semiconductor and ask for the nature of these transitions. Based on the analysis of electron-hole pairing in the extended Falicov-Kimball model, we show that tuning the Coulomb attraction between both species, a continuous crossover between a BCS-like transition of Cooper-type pairs and a Bose-Einstein condensation of preformed tightly-bound excitons might be achieved in a solid-state system. The precursor of this crossover in the normal state might cause the transport anomalies observed in several strongly correlated mixed-valence compounds. 
B. Zenker, D. Ihle, F. X. Bronold, and H. Fehske
cond-mat.str-el