claims better-than-Dijkstra asymptotic performance in some edge cases.
The abstract reads as follows: "We give a deterministic O(m log2\log^{2/3}n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the O(m + n log n) time bound of Dijkstra’s algorithm on sparse graphs, showing that Dijkstra’s algorithm is not optimal for SSSP."